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Software Engineering

MicrosoftCosta Rica

Hace 10 días

Descripción del trabajo

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 Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is a specialized engineering team within Microsoft’s Gaming division and our goal is to help empower game developers to realize their dreams on Microsoft gaming platforms. Our team strives to understand the technological challenges, motivations, and goals of game developers, and works across our platform and the industry to create solutions, enhance and advance game technology, and improve the developer experience.

The ATG Graphics team is looking for a collaborative software engineer who is passionate about graphics, gaming technology, and enhancing the experience for game developers. As a member of this team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with both game developers and Microsoft platform teams to help guarantee that games are visually impressive and perform efficiently. The ideal candidate should have some experience with real-time rendering and an understanding of code performance and optimization. This engineer values teamwork with diverse developers from all corners of the gaming world and is dedicated to ongoing learning, innovation, and advancing the industry.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required / minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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Responsibilities

Coding

Supports efforts to use debugging, tests, tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions before issues occur for product features in production.

Conducts incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, implements repair actions, and identifies mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence with minimal supervision.

Under minimal guidance, applies least-access principles, and uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security.

Reviews product feature code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product feature.

Contributes to bringing insight to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills with minimal guidance.

Contributes to code reviews in a timely fashion that helps accelerate the pace of development on the team.

Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered.

Applies and reviews for coding patterns, security risks, compliance issues, and best practices in code reviews.

Uses automated source code analysis tools that are incorporated into the build / development process with minimal supervision.

Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable with minimal supervision.

Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable.

Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions).

Escalates identified blockers or unknowns during the development process, communicates how they will impact timelines, and contributes to identifying strategies and / or opportunities to address them with minimal supervision.

Design

Understands and provides feedback for proposals for architecture, with technical leadership from others. With minimal supervision, tests and explores various design options for a product / solution feature, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option.

Collaborates with architects with minimal supervision to build and modify a product / solution feature, providing feedback as needed. Begins to own or collaborate with other engineers on the architecture of solutions, following technical leadership as applicable.

Contributes to the development of design documents that support user stories and other product requirements with oversight.

Develops an awareness of the current technology landscape.

Escalates and shares findings from investigations with the team and owns some design decisions.

Helps to ensure system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), and other requirements and expectations.

Upholds Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements and expectations.

Understands the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others.

Contributes to the refinement of product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products.

Creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code with minimal supervision.

Executes test plans that incorporate security testing to validate security invariants (including negative cases) with minimal supervision. Adds new tests to cover gaps, deleting or fixing broken tests, improving the speed, reliability, and defect localization of tests in the feature area.

Builds testable code and considers testability during design for a set of features with minimal guidance.

Understands the different types of tests that can be done on a particular system (e.g., unit tests), and maintains up-to-date understanding of testing architectures used both across Microsoft and across the industry.

Leverages artificial intelligence (AI) tools for test automation with minimal supervision.

Contributes to identifying dependencies, and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Helps to actively identify other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others.

Understands downstream interactions between systems. Contributes to collaborating with other teams to reach common goals where dependencies and validation concerns overlap.

Engineering Excellence

Contributes to the identification of requirements for, and development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature, targeting zero-touch deployment when possible.

Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight.

Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants.

Follows best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements, and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises.

Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support easier, faster, and more effective software engineering for complex product features.

Identifies whether open source or internal code is available to address coding needs for a set of product features, and reuses it in a responsible manner where applicable.

Develops higher-level awareness of tools outside current areas of expertise.

Helps to identify and / or create tools that are useful for building the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution.

Understands and applies security best practices and establishes code invariants to model "security as code," ensuring each layer is independently secure, and minimizing risk with minimal supervision.

Adopts security standards for clear security code review practices for a set of product features that align with design and engineering principles to raise the security hardening for both protections and detections.

Contributes to incorporating deployment gates on security controls, and scanners for a set of product features to prevent regressions and / or vulnerabilities that would have customer impact.

Includes required security monitoring to ensure detection of violations with minimal guidance.

With minimal supervision, works with relevant security partners to define security promises and security invariants while factoring in attacker / investigator personas for security monitoring and telemetry needs, ensure threat models and premortems validate upstream and downstream assumptions and security invariants, establish security breach drills and security incident response processes (e.g., impact analysis, containment), and ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) safety features are implemented for the AI production systems tied to a set of product features.

Contributes to efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.

Checks for visible evidence (e.g., audit trail) to demonstrate compliance for product areas.

Develops and holds an understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft.

Demonstrates and maintains an up-to-date understanding of both global and local regulations for technologies and system applications to ensure regulations are met.

Works with partner teams to ensure a set of product features work well with the components of the partner team with minimal supervision, contributing to efforts to ensure proper end-to-end testing, live-site coverage, scalability, performance, and DRI escalation pathways are established before going live.

Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into being informed of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Conducts learning and literary sessions to raise awareness on relevant engineering design principles (e.g., security, testability, performance, scalability, accessibility, product knowledge) with minimal guidance.

Implement

Reviews work items to deepen knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., technical program managers) and executes project plans, release plans, and work items.

Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and providing estimation.

Escalates issues that might cause a delay.

Ensures required security protections and detection processes are accounted for in planning with minimal guidance.

Contributes to ensuring project plans adhere to security, privacy, and compliance requirements.

Ensures all code for a set of product / solution features is properly flighted for quicker mitigation of production incidents with minimal supervision.

Calculates capacity for planning, accounting for appropriate failover and backup / restore mechanisms for disaster recovery for a set of features with minimal guidance.

Makes considerations for efficient operation of a set of features after it is live with minimal supervision.

Contributes to establishing a rollback plan for a set of features.

Learns about and supports deployment to customers by following the correct measures to push features out to customers.

Follows safe change deployment practices (e.g., ensuring that flights are set correctly) for their team to minimize adverse impact to users and other services with managerial guidance.

Learns about and applies best practices for the deployment of features safely with managerial oversight and / or guidance from more experienced peers.

Contributes to monitoring dependency status and ensuring that only the latest, secure versions are deployed.

Identifies when rollback plans should be enacted for a product feature with direct supervision.

Contributes to building deployment infrastructure to allow developers' private builds for a product feature to be tested in a production-like environment.

Leveraging internal experimentation infrastructures, conducts experiments that determine the impact of changes, using feature flags / flighting in their code.

Collaborates with internal partners (e.g., Data Science, product managers) to incorporate success and guard rail metrics for experimentation with minimal guidance.

Reliability and Supportability

Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis.

Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues and complex issues when applicable impacting performance or functionality of live site services and escalates appropriately.

With minimal supervision, improves troubleshooting guides (TSGs), wikis, tests, and telemetry to make on-call better, and recommends user-facing support documentation and additional test coverage to reduce likelihood of future user-initiated incidents.

Contributes to enabling secure operations, security monitoring, and integration with live site investigation activities with minimal oversight. Identifies and proposes opportunities (e.g., lunch talks, automation, practices, tools) that can be leveraged to improve the live site experience with minimal guidance.

Identifies areas to contribute to efforts to integrate logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms, and for allowing monitoring and investigating security-related concerns and scenarios for both live and A / B experiments for products, services, and offerings. Leverages telemetry feedback and effectiveness to contribute to improving subsequent monitoring designs with minimal guidance.

Contributes to efforts to classify, and analyze data with little oversight on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring), and helps to create outputs (e.g., notifications, dashboards) that improve monitoring and investigating security-related concerns and scenarios, system monitoring and / or issue identification and mitigation.

Considers the privacy implications of telemetry code changes, and adding new data points with minimal guidance.

Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI), working on-call to monitor a system / product feature / service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore system / product / service for simple problems.

Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe.

Escalates issues to appropriate owners.

Understand User Requirements

Works with appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g., product manager, privacy / security subject matter expert, technical lead) to understand and determine customer / user requirements for a set of features.

Incorporates customer insights into future designs or solution fixes with minimal supervision.

Incorporates unwritten requirements, such as appropriate continuous feedback loops that measure actionable, quantitative (e.g., customer value, usage patterns, solution performance) and qualitative (e.g., accessibility, globalization) indicators of value.

Understands, and begins providing feedback on, and advocating for the security and privacy needs of the customer who will be using the set of features.

Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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