Overview

The group designing and building the next generation of networking, multiplayer, and communications technology for the Xbox platform is looking for new talent!

Do you love all things networking? Do you think the world would be a much lonelier place without the ability to communicate, socialize, and play together online? If this sounds like you, come join the Xbox Platform Networking & Multiplayer Team as a Software Engineer II! More than 2.5B people play games across console, PC and mobile and our ambition is to reach all of them with industry leading experiences.

In this role you will be responsible for game networking experiences on Xbox, PC, and beyond. Your focus will be on the console OS platform and new device experiences, but the team has opportunities for breadth and impact spanning drivers to game development SDKs as you grow in your career.

Responsibilities

Creates and implements code for networking platform technologies, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code.
Supports efforts to apply debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for product features. Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems.
Reviews code of a product feature to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature. Applies feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered. Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews.
Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests). Adds new tests, removes antiquated tests, and aggregates tests to improve tests in the feature area. Helps to drive efforts for augmenting test cases and ensures that the solution area has good test coverage. Helps to integrate automation features when planning for testing.
Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features.
Works with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of features. Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Incorporates appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) OR equivalent experience
2+ years technical engineering experience
2+ years of industry experience with C/C++

Preferred

Experience with fundamental networking technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, and REST
Experience with network drivers, especially NDIS + WDI
Experience in both user and kernel mode development
Experience authoring and maintaining developer facing APIs

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Software Engineering