Senior Software Engineer-Xbox

The group designing and building the next generation of networking, multiplayer, and communications technology for the Xbox platform is looking for new talent!

Do you love all things networking? Do you think the world would be a much lonelier place without the ability to communicate, socialize, and play together online? If this sounds like you, come join the Xbox Platform Networking & Multiplayer Team as a Senior Software Engineer! More than 2.5B people play games across console, PC and mobile and our ambition is to reach all of them with industry leading experiences.

In this role you will be responsible for multiplayer and networking on Xbox, PC, and beyond. Your engineering focus will be developer-facing SDKs that are integrated directly into games to support these experiences. You will have the opportunity to interact with existing large-scale studios in the AAA title space – blockbuster games. Finally, there are opportunities to jump into the in-game and on-console chat ecosystems to build new experiences around these cornerstone gaming components.

Responsibilities

• Focus on the design and implementation of reliable and efficient networking and multiplayer code. Create code that is maintainable and understandable.
• Develop expertise needed for areas of responsibility. Share expertise with others within team to drive progress. Apply research and data to prioritize work.
• Collaborate and build working relationships with the work group, teams across the Xbox organization and inside Microsoft, and industry partners.
• Estimate individual schedules for work delivery. Identify needs that are not spoken and include them in end-to-end design plan and process.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• A bachelor's degree in an engineering focused discipline (such as electrical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, computer science or computer engineering) OR equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of industry software design and development experience.
• 2+ years of industry experience with C/C++.
• 2+ years of industry experience demonstrating familiarity with fundamental networking technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, and REST.
• Advanced English level
  
  

Preferred

• Peer to peer networking (mesh networks)
• Peer to host networking (server networks)
• Experience authoring and maintaining developer facing APIs
• Experience with game programming or game engine integration
  
  

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