Minecraft inspires millions to create together, connects people across the globe, and brings together a community that is among the most active and passionate in the world. The Minecraft team is looking for a developer to lead and drive the timely delivery of next generation game technology and foundations.

The Software Engineer 2 role takes end-to-end ownership for development and quality of products and services that delight customers and add strategic value to Microsoft. They evaluate requirements, estimate costs, and design and implement products and services. They define and implement the quality criteria for their products and services, using measurements and insights to understand and validate the quality of experience for customers. They manage and improve the engineering process, manage risks, dependencies, and compromises, and integrate software into broader ecosystems and/or products and services.

You will work with peers across disciplines (Art, Design, Production, and Test) to build robust features on a predictable schedule and at high quality. You identify technology opportunities, risks, and prototyping new techniques to create high quality player-focused games.

Responsibilities

• Developing and coordinating features using Microsoft Azure compute and Storage
• Defining initiatives that impact our games or services
• Ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables
• Effectively communicating, both within the team and across the organization
• Building strong partnerships with developers, program managers, and designers

Qualifications

• Experience writing cloud-based web services, preferably in Azure.
• Understanding of Azure for compute, storage, cache, and VMs, or comparable cloud-based web services.
• Understanding of test- and performance-driven methodology to build services. We need to ensure that our services are both robust and handle extremely high scale.
• Experience writing code in C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, an/or other related languages.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

In the end, it’s the people of Mojang Studios that make this place truly special. When you join, you’ll find yourself in the company of incredibly bright, warm, and creative individuals – all united and working toward a single goal. Come help us reach it!

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