Sr. Software Engineer, Minecraft Minecraft inspires millions to create together, connects people across the globe, and brings together a community that is among the most active and passionate in the world. The Minecraft team is looking for a developer to lead and drive the timely delivery of next generation game technology and foundations. Software Engineers take end-to-end ownership for development and quality of products and services that delight customers and add strategic value to Microsoft. They evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and design and implement products and services. They define and implement the quality criteria for their products and services, using measurements and insights to understand and validate the quality of experience for customers. They manage and improve the engineering process, manage risks, dependencies and compromises, and integrate software into broader ecosystems and/or products and services. As an experienced software engineer you work with peers across
• Developing and coordinating features using Microsoft Azure compute and storage • Defining initiatives that impact our games • Ensuring timely, high quality deliverables • Strong communicator • Desire to be hands on
• At least 5 years of experience writing cloud-based web services, preferably in Azure. • Understanding of Azure for compute (websites and webjobs), storage, cache, and VMs • Test- and performance-driven methodology for building services. We need to ensure that our services are both robust and handle extremely high scale. • Mastery of code in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python (at least 5 years) and other languages