Microsoft · 3 weeks ago
Senior Platform Engineer - Xbox Publishing
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer for their Xbox Game Studios Publishing team, responsible for building and operating services and websites for their games. The role involves developing cloud infrastructure, maintaining security, and ensuring high availability for various game services.
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Responsibilities
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for cloud-hosted game services and websites, with a specific focus on improving security across our portfolio
Develop effective and reusable monitoring and alerting to achieve high availability
Design and implement processes to securely maintain and update infrastructure across our portfolio
Collaborate with the team to address security incidents and initiative-driven change requests as they arise
Troubleshoot and resolve service, website, and infrastructure failures
Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
Proven experience developing and operating Kubernetes clusters and applications deployed on them
Experience with a cloud computing environment (Azure or others)
Experience with Terraform or comparable IaC tools
Operational experience with an observability stack, preferably Prometheus and Grafana
Development experience with CI/CD pipeline (Azure DevOps or others)
Development experience with ASP.NET Core service, Go/Python, and Kusto Query Language
Understanding and experience with operating REST services
Demonstrable experience creating or contributing to Helm charts
Website development and/or operations experience, especially with PHP/WordPress/Apache
History of game development experience or a passion for online gaming
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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