Senior Software Development Engineer, XBOX Product Growth

What you'll do

• Design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments across various surfaces to increase console retention and daily active users.
• Develop telemetry, metrics, and analytics systems to objectively analyze experiment results and inform product decisions.
• Build full-stack features across service, client, and instrumentation layers from prototype through general availability.
• Implement technical changes in large, unfamiliar codebases owned by other teams while maintaining high code quality.
• Accelerate the engineering lifecycle by integrating agentic workflows and AI tools into development processes.
• Mentor other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and the promotion of best engineering practices.
• Balance speed and rigor to find low-cost tests for complex questions and prove impact with minimal investment.
• Use hypothesis-driven development to move key metrics and decide when to scale, iterate, or abandon features.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, XAML, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• 2+ years shipping A/B tests end-to-end in production (preferred).
• Experience in growth engineering, retention, engagement, acquisition, or experimentation-focused teams (preferred).
• 4+ years building and shipping full stack features across modern front ends and production services on cloud infrastructure like Azure (preferred).
• Track record of proposing product ideas that were shipped and measured to move specific metrics (preferred).
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration and making changes in codebases owned by other teams (preferred).
• Experience with large-scale telemetry, metric design, and querying analytics tools like Kusto or Databricks (preferred).