Software Engineering IC5

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

In short

At XBOX, we are looking for a Software Engineer (IC5) to join the Growth Product team. This remote role focuses on shaping the future of XBOX experiences through data-informed decision making, agile product engineering, and experimentation, with a focus on the Core pillar of XBOX's strategy. You will build across the full stack, iterate on experiments, and leverage AI to accelerate engineering velocity.

Responsibilities

Shape the future of the XBOX experience by proposing hypotheses and product vision.
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 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.
Accelerate the team through agentic workflows and AI evolution.
Mentor engineers and raise the bar through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering practices.
Exercise judgement on experiments: decide when to scale, iterate, or abandon.
Build secure, reliable, high-performing systems that meet Microsoft's privacy, compliance, and security requirements.
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.
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 for this role across Canada is CAD $142,400 - CAD $257,500 per year.

Skills

C++C#XAMLJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReact.NETAzureKustoDatabricks

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