Senior Backend Engineer - Xbox Game Studios Publishing
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https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1076426/Senior-Backend-Engineer-Xbox-Game-Studios-Publishing
The Xbox Game Studios Publishing Team responsible for the recently released Microsoft Flight Simulator, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and Tell Me Why is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer.
We are 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 backend engineer with solid experience in service development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps engineering, and everything else that contributes towards healthy services for our games.
Qualifications:
-Experience developing and operating applications within Kubernetes.
-Experience with a cloud computing environment (Azure or others).
-NET Core service development experience.
-Operational experience with an observability stack.
-Operational experience with both Linux and Windows.
-CI/CD pipeline development experience (Azure DevOps or others).
-Understanding of and experience with operating REST services.
-Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
-Professional development experience in a role of similar responsibilities.
-Self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
-Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Skills:
-Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
-Demonstrable experience creating or contributing to Helm charts.
-Experience with Terraform, or comparable IaC tools.
-Website development and/or operations experience, especially with -PHP/WordPress/Apache.
-Experience using the Kusto Query Language.
-Demonstrable experience with Go/Python.
-History of game development experience or a passion for online gaming.
