Live Services Engineer- Xbox Games Studio- Rare

3 days ago

Atherstone, United Kingdom Microsoft Games Full time
Overview

Rare is an Xbox Game Studio creating the kind of games the world doesn't have. Our values - explorers, evolving, together - are fundamental to the games we make and how we make them. Rare offers rewarding and fulfilling careers for exceptional people, supporting you to learn and grow. Our studio is a welcoming campus in the heart of the Midlands, where the majority of our team work in a flexible hybrid work pattern.

Responsibilities

Role Purpose

At this exciting time in the studio's history, we are seeking a talented Live Services Engineer with a wide range of skills to help us provide a rock-solid environment within which our games can run.

The Live Services team is responsible for the development and operations of Rare's services that support these games. We work end to end on each game, from designing scalable systems through to supporting their reliability in production.

We're big believers in high-quality engineering here at Rare and aim for fast iteration with robust methods. This means that we embrace modern development practices such as continuous delivery, automated testing, code reviews, pair programming and agile methods.

Key Accountabilities

As a member of our Live Services team, you would be delivering high-quality tested services to support Rare's current and future games, along with developing and improving our platform. We develop all our new services with .NET and use highly scalable databases like Azure Cosmos DB. We're looking for someone to learn both from and with us, and to take an active role in the improvement of engineering at Rare.

Being a central team, we work across the breadth of Rare, supporting and collaborating with other teams around the studio while building out scalable solutions for use by live games.

As a first-party Xbox studio serving millions of players every month, our services are a key part of the live functioning of these games and at the cutting edge of the Azure technology stack.

At Rare, we give our engineers agency to solve problems creatively and in their own way, while minimising technical debt and avoiding maintenance hazards. Be part of Rare's culture. Be inquisitive, try things out and help those around you become even better.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  • Solid grounding and experience in C#.
  • Familiarity with automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.
  • Writing tests and testable code is a key element to our approach, so experience here is essential.


Desirable Experience

Our team gets excited about code - if you've contributed to OSS, developed your own apps, services, games or anything else, we'd love to see examples

As part of our team, you would work on modern release pipelines, so experience (or awareness) in CI/CD (Octopus Deploy/Azure DevOps/TeamCity) would be useful. And since our team deals with designing, building, and operating highly available and scalable microservices, knowledge or experience in this area would be a plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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