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Posted date: May 05, 2026
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $132,300
Range: $84,200 - $180,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewThe Minecraft Marketplace Player Facing Services team powers the service behind Minecraft’s Marketplace, one of the main revenue drivers for the entire game. These services support hundreds of millions of Minecraft players helping them find content they will enjoy playing. We are constantly looking for ways to personalize the marketplace, provide recommendations to players and provide a fun experience within the marketplace. The C# services run on K8 clusters with Linux containers, utilizing many Azure technologies. As a software engineer in this area, you will evaluate requirements, design features, estimate development, and integrate high quality features into our products. Collaboration with peers in development, design, product, and quality will be key to delivering robust features on a predictable schedule. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
This role is targeting an immediate start date.
Responsibilities
Learns to design, implement, debug, test, and review maintainable code for product features using established patterns, best practices, and AI-assisted development tools with managerial guidance. Learns to contribute to design investigations and documentation for assigned features, testing technical hypotheses and escalating findings while considering performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements.Learns to apply engineering standards to ensure security, privacy, reliability, accessibility, and compliance through disciplined processes, secure coding practices, and automated analysis tools under direct oversight.Learns to collaborate with cross-functional partners to understand user and customer requirements and incorporate feedback and insights into feature delivery with direct guidance.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience 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 1+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
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Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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.