Principal Development Lead in Xbox Live Community at Microsoft
Principal Development Lead in Xbox Live Community Details
April 9, 2019, 7:04 p.m.
Engineering
People Manager
Full-Time
Redmond, WA
Graph Services team Xbox Live, the
Xbox Live is an exceptional place to work – for every gamer, and every non-gamer with a real passion for deeply understanding our current and future gaming fans. It is a place where we recognize that we are better when we work together, and even better still when we lift and grow one another. We are made stronger by our array of dynamic perspectives and ideas. And we have fun, a lot of fun. You should join us. Xbox Live, the leading gamer network spanning console, PC and mobile games, is central to Microsoft's gaming strategy. Xbox Live provides the breadth of social gaming experiences with Xbox Live clubs, friends, chat, messaging, community hubs, game hubs, game activity feed, and much more. Xbox Live has an exemplary future as it expands to serve many more scenarios where consumers, and creators interact with each other. We are looking for an engineering leader to run the Xbox Live Graph Services team. In this role, you will lead a passionate group of engineers building services that
• As a technical leader, you will provide architectural mentorship, hold a high bar on quality and manage the projects through meticulous execution. You are not afraid to roll up sleeves and be in the trenches if needed. • As a people manager you will inspire, attract, hire, mentor and grow a team of talented engineers. • As a product innovator, you will ideate, scope and drive implementation and validation. The balance of your time will be spending driving architecture, innovation, design and development of amazing services and experiences within the team and pushing technology out to the larger
• At least 10 years of professional software development experience and 3 years of people management experience • Customer obsession, and a real passion for delivering delightful consumer end-to-end experiences. • Genuine love for the product and seeks out opportunity to ideate and follow through with execution. • Demonstrated experience in building highly scalable and reliable services. • Experience running an agile team that ideates, gets things done quickly, measures, gets user feedback and repeats. • Effective interpersonal skills and a history of growing people Preferred Qualifications: •