Microsoft Software Engineer II

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Posted date: Sep 08, 2025

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Category: Software Engineering

Location: Redmond, WA

Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: Up to 50% work from home

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

At Team Xbox, we believe in a future where you can play the games you want, with the people you want, on the devices you have. Our Gaming Intelligence and AI team decision engine and experimentation platform team builds the foundation that powers data-driven decision-making across gaming experiences.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help design, implement, and support experimentation capabilities used across Xbox. In this role, you will create features and frameworks that enable partner teams to test ideas quickly, measure impact, and deliver individualized experience that delight players. You will partner with teams across Xbox as they embark on their experimentation journey and enable advanced evaluation scenarios at scale. This is a unique opportunity to shape the systems that will help millions of players connect to the games they love.

Design, build, and maintain experimentation platforms that support large-scale gaming environments.Partner with data engineer, data science and product teams to create tools and APIs that make experimentation and evaluation seamless.Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of experimentation infrastructure across distributed systems.Contribute to observability and monitoring systems to ensure experiment results are trustworthy.Drive best practices in platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.Stay current with advances in experimentation methods, ML-driven evaluation, and platform technologies.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.2+ years of experience in engineering and building distributed systems, backend services or data platforms.Experience with cloud stack (azure preferable or equivalent) including services such as blob storage, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).Hands-on experience using or enabling A/B experimentation to drive product optimization and learning.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with C++, Redux.Understanding of statistics.Experience to work with cross-functional partners in data engineers, data scientists and product partners.Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results across organizational boundaries.Knowledge of engineering and security best practices.Full stack development experience.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 22, 2025.

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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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