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Posted date: Jan 26, 2026
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewOn Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players.
The Experiences and Platforms engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer II to help us build Game Pass experiences and bring new end-to-end features to the Xbox app for PC.
In your role, you will work with a diverse team of engineers, building experiences & infrastructure that drive growth in the PC ecosystem. We’re using React Native on Windows and React/Win32 on Windows to enable cross-product code-sharing, and as an experience team, work with partners across Team Xbox up and down the stack to enable scenarios.
In this role, you will lead your feature crew to deliver features and codebase improvements on PC Xbox experiences. Your success requires that you work closely with your Feature crew, Product management, and Design. As a technical leader and feature expert, you will contribute to projects with meticulous execution, hold a high bar on quality, and partner with individuals on your team, fostering a positive environment to build more end user features and quality improvements.
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer II, you will be responsible for feature design and implementation, holding a high bar on quality and delivering your projects through meticulous execution. You build features yourself and work with other engineers to drive larger features and infrastructure improvements.
As a primary feature owner, you will ideate, scope, and drive implementation, validation, and health monitoring.
Your time will be balanced implementing new features and contributing to a product infrastructure area like performance, reliability, accessibility, shared libraries, telemetry.
You will build real-time data monitoring and alerting signals to monitor the health of features you ship to know when critical errors happen and when critical dependencies fail.
Curiosity to understand what excites our existing user base and what motivates new users to use our products is part of the job: we own the end-to-end experience. Identify an MVP, implement, flight to a target set of users, collect data from flight audiences, iterate, pivot, and repeat – this is the DNA of our development culture.
Qualifications
Required:
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.4+ years of professional software development experience building end-user applications
Excellent design and coding skills in C/C++/C#
Proven track record of shipping consumer UX features on PC or Mobile, and experience driving architecture for multiple feature areas.
Preferred:
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.Experience building subscription or gaming-related user experiences on PC or Mobile
C++ XAML or React Native Windows/Win32 development experience
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
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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