Principal Engineering Manager – Developer Engagement and Management
Posted on: 5 Feb 2021
Redmond, WA
Job Description
The Game Developer eXperiences (GDX) team is looking for a Principal Engineering Manager passionate about the end-to-end developer experience. Our mission in GDX is to empower game creators to realize their dreams. Achieving this requires that developers have a great experience from the day they first login to the development portal, to successfully managing their title after it ships. Your key areas of focus will be developer education, portals, forums, ingestion, title configuration, title management, and more. This spans developers within the Xbox Live, PlayFab, and Game Pass ecosystems
* Build a deep understanding of the experience of our developers today, identify gaps and opportunities, and build and execute on a metric driven roadmap
* Be customer obsessed in everything you do while also delivering on our key business objectives
* Work across Gaming, Microsoft and external partners to deliver end-to-end integrated solutions
* Develop best-in-class engineering for our frontend and backend components ensuring that they are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, maintainable, and actively monitored.u202F
* Recruit, and re-recruit your team for high engagement and morale
* Be an active member of an organization that contributes to the success of others and provides ample opportunity for personal growth and learning
* Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment
* Be a mentor for the people on your team and help them grow
* 8+ years of software development experience
* 3+ years people management experience
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* A love of leading people, and building incredible teams
* Experience building positive partnerships between teams and divisions
* Able to quickly resolve ambiguity and respond to rapid change
* A strong performance history
* Experience across multiple developer platforms, with an ability to articulate strengths and opportunities
* BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent preferred
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide. Its company’s Productivity and Business Processes segment offers Office 365 commercial products and services, such as Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Office 365 consumer services, including Skype, Outlook.com, and OneDrive; LinkedIn online professional network; and Dynamics business solutions comprising financial management, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and analytics applications for small and medium businesses, large organizations, and divisions of enterprises.
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Its More Personal Computing segment offers Windows OEM, volume, and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; patent licensing, Windows Internet of Things, and MSN display advertising; Surface, PC accessories, and other devices; Xbox hardware and software and services; and Bing and Bing Ads search advertising. It markets its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers; and online and Microsoft retail stores.
Microsoft Corporation has collaboration with E.ON, NIIT Technologies Ltd., CUNA Mutual Group, and Mastercard Incorporated; strategic alliance with Nielsen Holdings plc and PAREXEL International Corp.; and a strategic partnership with SK Telecom Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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