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Software Engineering IC5

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering

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In short

As a Software Engineering IC5 at XBOX Growth, you will be instrumental in reaching 1 billion daily active users by shaping the future of the XBOX experience through data-informed decision making and experimentation. This remote role requires building across the full stack and driving measurable business impact through AI-enhanced workflows and hypothesis-driven development.

Responsibilities

  • Propose hypothesis and product vision for growth experiments, not just technical implementation.
  • Design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments across surfaces, services, and feature areas to increase console retention and daily active users.
  • Design telemetry, metrics, and analytics systems, and analyze scorecards objectively.
  • Build comfortability with being wrong often, owning learnings, and fast pivots and iteration.
  • Provide strong product vision and defend a ranked set of hypotheses.
  • Build across the stack: service, client, and instrumentation work on console, web, mobile, or external surfaces.
  • Make focused, reviewable changes in codebases owned by other teams.
  • Participate in the team's live-site and on-call rotation.
  • Enter large, unfamiliar codebases, orient quickly, and land substantial technical changes.
  • Significantly accelerate the team through agentic workflows and AI evolution.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar through design and code reviews.
  • Exercise judgement on experiments, deciding when to scale, iterate, or abandon.
  • Build secure, reliable, high-performing systems meeting Microsoft's requirements.
  • Exercise creativity and judgement to balance speed and rigor, finding cheap tests for expensive questions.
  • Use hypothesis-driven development to measurably move key metrics.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, XAML, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Desired Qualifications

  • 3+ years shipping A/B tests end-to-end in production (design → instrumentation → analysis → rollout), including improving experiment quality and guardrails.
  • Experience in growth engineering, retention, engagement, acquisition, or experimentation-focused teams.
  • 6+ years building and shipping full stack features across modern front ends (TypeScript, React, XAML) together with production services (C#, .NET) on cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure.
  • Demonstrated track record of proposing product ideas that were shipped and measured, and of owning a growth, engagement, retention, or monetization metric across a sequence of experiments.
  • Experience with cross functional and cross team collaboration including making production changes in codebases owned by other teams, navigating unfamiliar architectures, driving partner review processes, and engaging independently with design, product, and engineering across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience with large-scale telemetry, metric design, and querying analytics tooling (for example, Kusto, Databricks, or comparable data platforms).
  • Demonstrated experience leaning heavily on AI to accelerate engineering velocity, including using AI tools to research, prototype, implement, debug, and iterate on production features.
  • Experience in shipping consumer products at scale - gaming, entertainment, commerce, or subscription businesses.

Benefits

  • Typical base pay range across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
  • Base pay range in San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $188,000 - $304,200 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
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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

6 days ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

Remote

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

United States

Qualification

Bachelor

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