343 Industries is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Services Lifecycle Team. The Lifecycle team owns cloud services related to matchmaking, player skill assessment, shepherding groups of players through the game's experiences, and wrangling pools of dedicated servers. We're seeking talented, experienced developers with a variety of backgrounds who want to redefine the Halo experience through the application of modern cloud service technologies. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work with game designers, production, and other client and service engineers to bring new game features to life. 343's Core Services team follows an agile, iterative, and quality driven software development lifecycle. We value development of unit and acceptance tests as part of feature development. We embrace DevOps and build our features to be supportable and easy to troubleshoot. We believe that main should always be shippable and features should get to our customers as frequently as possible
- Design and implement performant Azure based services and tools - Write unit, integration, and stress tests - Work with service team leads and production to estimate, track, and scope work across all phases of the project - Provide technical guidance for game designers about feature scalability and projected costs - Participate in our on-call rotation
Basic Qualifications: - 5+ years professional C#, Java, or C++ development Preferred skills: - Exemplary design and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale distributed systems - Experience building, debugging, shipping, monitoring, and supporting REST-based services - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - BS/BEng in Math, CS, or equivalent Bonus skills: - Game development experience - Experience with Azure or other cloud service technologies - Direct experience building stress and performance tests and analyzing the results