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Posted date: Dec 10, 2025
Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewXcloud’s Streaming team is looking for a highly-motivated Senior Software Engineer with experience shipping video streaming applications across the device and web ecosystem. We want candidates who can think broadly, collaborate well, pick up and contribute to a broad range of technologies, and generally want to have fun enabling gamers of all kinds to play wherever they want to play.
Xcloud is a transformative product at the intersection of gaming, the cloud, and smart devices, and the Streaming team is at the heart of it. Our goal is to build the best solution in the world for streaming games from the cloud to gamers everywhere.
Collaboration, diversity, & self-direction are valued here. Expect to be given room and support to grow personally and professionally.
Technically challenging projects, a healthy and high-caliber team, game-changing products for excited fans… don’t miss this rewarding opportunity!
Responsibilities
Build new Xcloud features leveraging the full Microsoft ecosystem Work within and across teams to solve complex technical challenges Develop engineering best-practices Predictably deliver large volumes of high-quality production code Grow & foster an inclusive, creative, high-performance team culture Coach & mentor other team members
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Additional or preferred qualifications Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.Skilled in design, debugging, and problem solving
Motivated to master challenging technical domains
Highly valued
Comfortable in a continuously delivering, responsive, and agile product team
Experience in C++ and/or Typescript
Experience delivering video streaming or computer graphics applications
Familiarity with WebRTC and other streaming protocols
Experienced in computer networking fundamentals
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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
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.
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