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Principal Software Development Engineer - XBOX Product Growth

AI summary of the role

Principal-level engineering role on the Xbox Growth product team, driving player acquisition, retention, and engagement through data-informed experimentation and full-stack engineering across console and cloud.

What you’ll do

  • Design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments across surfaces to increase console retention and daily active users
  • Build across the stack: service, client, and instrumentation on console, web, mobile, or external surfaces from prototype to GA
  • Design telemetry, metrics, and analytics systems to measure experiment results unambiguously
  • Accelerate the team through agentic workflows and AI across the engineering lifecycle

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor's Degree in CS or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, XAML, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python OR equivalent
  • 3+ years shipping A/B tests end-to-end in production
  • 6+ years building full stack features with TypeScript, React, XAML and C#, .NET on Azure
  • Experience owning a growth, engagement, retention, or monetization metric across experiments

Technologies

C · C++ · C# · XAML · Java · JavaScript · TypeScript · Python · React · .NET · Azure · Kusto

About Microsoft

Microsoft sells cloud infrastructure, productivity software, and AI tools to enterprises and consumers globally, anchored by Azure, Office 365, and the OpenAI partnership.

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Overview At XBOX, we have an ambitious goal to reach 1B daily active users by helping more people discover games, connect with others, and play wherever they are. Over the past 25 years, XBOX has built a passionate global community, innovative hardware and services, and some of the world’s most beloved gaming franchises. How people discover, access, and engage with games is changing rapidly, creating new opportunities for Xbox to grow. XBOX Growth helps unlock these opportunities and reach new audiences through a rigorous, data-informed approach. We combine data, analytics, and product experimentation to learn what works and build experiences that attract, engage, and retain users. Our work enables teams across XBOX to turn insights into measurable impact for users and the business. Join the XBOX Growth's Product team and help build the exemplar of a small engineering team leveraging
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Overview At XBOX, we have an ambitious goal to reach 1B daily active users by helping more people discover games, connect with others, and play wherever they are. Over the past 25 years, XBOX has built a passionate global community, innovative hardware and services, and some of the world’s most beloved gaming franchises. How people discover, access, and engage with games is changing rapidly, creating new opportunities for Xbox to grow. XBOX Growth helps unlock these opportunities and reach new audiences through a rigorous, data-informed approach. We combine data, analytics, and product experimentation to learn what works and build experiences that attract, engage, and retain users. Our work enables teams across XBOX to turn insights into measurable impact for users and the business. Join the XBOX Growth's Product team and help build the exemplar of a small engineering team leveraging data informed decision making, agile product engineering, and experimentation. You will sit at the intersection of product design, engineering, and data, crafting experiments that shape how millions of players discover, return to, and stay engaged with XBOX. XBOX is currently resetting its strategy to focus on Core, Content, Creation, and Connection. Growth Product focuses on the Core pillar, through winning on console, delighting players, and giving them reasons to come back and experience the m [... source excerpt omitted ...] ing in our ecosystem. This role is about shipping fast, learning through data backed experimentation, iterating on what works and building learning and judgement on what does not. You will work across the whole stack, the whole player journey, and multiple feature areas; no feature area is off limits and this team chooses work based on impact not organizational boundaries. You will accelerate and define data driven development through AI enhanced workflows. You will have measurable business impact by turning learnings into leverage and owning ideas through to execution and scaling. Responsibilities Experiment Shape the future of the XBOX experience. Propose the hypothesis and [... source excerpt omitted ...] ked and retire what did not, including your own ideas Build comfortability with being wrong often, owning learnings, and fast pivots and iteration Provide strong product vision. You will form your own opinions about what is worth building, and you can defend a ranked set of hypotheses with the metric each would move Engineer Build across the stack: service, client, and instrumentation work on console, and possibly even web, mobile, or external surfaces from prototype through general availability Make focused, reviewable changes in codebases owned by other teams, and leave their owners glad you were there; make the changes others missed and wished they could have done. Parti

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