At Mojang Studios, the creators of Minecraft, we are on a mission to build a better world through the power of play.
Why play? Well, play is at the heart of everything we do. It’s the blocky backbone of our games, the core of our development philosophy, and even the origin of our name. From the relentless experimentation of our endlessly inspiring community to the classrooms where Minecraft has become an essential teaching tool, play is the bedrock of our existence.
We enable millions to create and play together, connect people across the globe, and foster a community that is among the most active and passionate in the world. Our community is global and incredibly diverse. When we are developing anything within our franchise, we keep this in mind. We want everyone to not only feel included in Minecraft, but also to see themselves in what we make. Our goal is for the Mojang Studios team to be as diverse as our community.
Minecraft Engineering Systems is looking for a Software Engineer II to join our Test Automation team who supports our team in shipping high quality releases via Continuous Delivery. We are looking for someone with experience building pipelines and cloud services. Your customers will be the engineers building Minecraft, and you’ll need to be passionate about keeping their tooling easy-to-use and reliable. In this role, you will be ensuring the quality of one of the most popular and long-lived games in the world, across a wider set of platforms than practically any other software in the world!
In the end, it’s the people of Mojang Studios that make this place truly special. When you join, you’ll find yourself in the company of incredibly bright, warm, and creative individuals – all united and working toward a single goal. Come help us reach it!
Qualifications:
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
- 1 + years of experience using git
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling or build/test infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building services in some cloud, e.g. AWS or Google. Azure.
- Experience with DevOps/Quality tooling such as Azure pipelines and Azure DevOps, or equivalents from other DevOps ecosystems, e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, GitHub actions.
- Experience with tooling ecosystem for Android, MacOS/iOS, PlayStation or Nintendo.
- 1+ years of experience developing in modern C++.
Software Engineering IC3 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 – $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 – $198,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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Responsibilities:
- Working with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for a set of features.
- Learning test automation scripts, frameworks and services. Independently figuring out how to solve problems at hand. Code reviewing script changes for teammates.
- Participating in incident support rotations and monitoring Slack for help requests (during reasonable business hours), helping others, performing incident root-cause analysis.