
Backend Engineer - Xbox Game Studios Publishing
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. Design and develop custom web services for a variety of game features hosted in the cloud. Build and maintain infrastructure for cloud-hosted game services and websites. Develop effective monitoring and alerting to achieve high up-time. Troubleshoot and resolve service, website, and infrastructure failures. Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
Experience developing and operating applications within Kubernetes.
Operational experience with an observability stack.
Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP/WordPress/Apache.
Understanding of and experience with operating REST services.
CI/CD pipeline development experience (Azure DevOps or others).
Python
Go
Terraform
Grafana
Prometheus
Game development
Time Management Skills
Kusto Query Language
Verbal communication
Driven and self-motivated
written communication
Problem Solving Skills
Flexibility/Adaptability
Multi-tasking
Detail oriented and highly organized
According to JobzMall, the average salary range for a Backend Engineer - Xbox Game Studios Publishing in Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA is $90,000 - $118,000 per year. This is based on salaries reported by jobseekers who have worked in the same role at Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. The average salary for this role is approximately $104,000 per year.
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