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Overview: On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players.  

The Xbox Experiences and Platforms team is home to the design and engineering work that makes this vision possible, building the developer tools and services that enable game creators to craft incredible experiences, the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next favorite games, the platforms on which those games play at their best, and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox. 

Responsibilities

We are hiring an experienced Engineer Manager to help us manage/build front-end/backend Services that power various scenarios and experiences across Edge, Mobile, PC and Console clients. You will coach and lead a fun-loving, diverse team that seeks challenges, loves learning and values teamwork. You will collaborate with other managers and partners to build solutions that span across multiple services in a dynamic and agile environment, and have opportunities to contribute to career growth of individuals, engineering architecture, business strategy, and work on high-business impact areas.

Successful candidates will exhibit various attributes which will enhance their ability to succeed in this position.

Strong people management skills – Focus on building the right team culture with emphasis on diversity and Inclusion, proven ability to coach team members in various career stages with varied aspirations, ability to help them technically while giving them the opportunities to learn and grow is a core competency to have. 

Drive For Results - Being able to drive for results, not merely finding the boundary of your responsibility, but following a problem through to its conclusion, to solve it for the gamer by being the customer advocate, collaborating with partner teams to solve it the right way for the Gaming division.

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Technical Excellence - Ability to learn about the gaming space, work with the engineers in the team and the PM team, contributing to the shaping of the scenarios, experience in leveraging good service principles and leveraging industry standards, ability to look at the problem space and architecting solutions that help us with both short-term releases and prepare us for long term scale with our rapid customer growth, and deliver innovations is a must-have.

Our culture values open-respectful dialog, peer mentorship and team reflection in the spirit of continual growth and progression. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate this broad set of attributes well.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience

• Experience in your career history as a hands-on engineer working with large scale distributed systems with at least 2year as a people manager

• Experience architecting, developing and managing requirements and making data-driven decisions

• Experience in trade-off scenarios, prior ownership of a roadmap, and setting goals

Additional

• 3+ years of successful experience as people manager is a plus

• Prior experience of building services using c#, .Net on Kubernetes infrastructure is a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .