Senior Platform Engineer - Xbox Publishing

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

The Xbox Game Studios Publishing team responsible for the recently released Ninja Gaiden 4, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Ori and the Will of the Wisps is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer. This is a rare opportunity to join a creative and motivated team of people, develop exciting new projects, and take advantage of the newest technology available with backing and support from across Microsoft. Join the team driving world-class game development that sets the standard for entertainment across a growing family of devices including Xbox and Windows. Our team is responsible for building and operating the services and websites that power our games – whether they were released years ago or have yet to be announced. We’re looking for a platform engineer with extensive experience building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale, highly available, secure-by-default web services and websites.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience developing and operating Kubernetes clusters and applications deployed on them.
• Experience with a cloud computing environment (Azure or others).
• Experience with Terraform or comparable IaC tools.
• Operational experience with an observability stack, preferably Prometheus and Grafana.
• Development experience with CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps or others).
• Development experience with ASP.NET Core service, Go/Python, and Kusto Query Language
• Understanding and experience with operating REST services.
• Demonstrable experience creating or contributing to Helm charts.
• Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP/WordPress/Apache.
• History of game development experience or a passion for online gaming.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for cloud-hosted game services and websites, with a specific focus on improving security across our portfolio.
• Develop effective and reusable monitoring and alerting to achieve high availability.
• Design and implement processes to securely maintain and update infrastructure across our portfolio.
• Collaborate with the team to address security incidents and initiative-driven change requests as they arise.
• Troubleshoot and resolve service, website, and infrastructure failures.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees