Senior Software Engineer – Xbox Graphics

3 weeks ago

Vancouver Metro Vancouver Regional District, CA Microsoft Full time

The Xbox Graphics team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - XBOX Graphics who is excited to work on state-of-the-art graphics, compression, and emulation systems. Our diverse team works at the intersection of hardware and software to provide industry-leading game development technology. Working closely with hardware engineers and game developers, we define the future of graphics and game development.

If making important contributions to graphics drivers, tools, firmware, or GPU architecture sounds like fun (we think so), then we want to talk to you

In Core OS, we are responsible for the Operating Systems that power Azure, Microsoft's Linux OS, the platforms for Windows Client and Xbox, and our Windows Server ecosystem – through all of these, we support every one of our cloud businesses and billions of customers around the world. In this era of ubiquitous computing, systems software excellence has never been more important for Microsoft. High quality, high-efficiency operating systems and platform components underpin everything we do as a company, from making our systems more reliable for our customers, to increasing our competitiveness by reducing COGS, to delivering new features and capabilities to delight customers – that’s all us

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.

Responsibilities
  • Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements.
  • Leads by example within the team by producing extensible, maintainable, and testable code. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
  • Leads discussions for the architecture and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides feedback, proposed solutions, to peers. Owns architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
  • Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions. Drives efforts to add new tests, remove antiquated tests, and aggregate tests to improve the test suite.
  • Applies debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products. Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems.
  • Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations.
Qualifications Required Qualifications:
  • 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
  • 4+ years of experience working at low levels of software stack, device driver development, emulation systems, firmware, and/or integration of hardware and software.
Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, HLSL, GLSL
    • OR equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of experience working at low levels of software stack, device driver development, emulation systems, firmware, and/or integration of hardware and software.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 13, 2024.

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.

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