Mojang Studios is best known as the creators of Minecraft, but we’re also 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.
About the Role
The Minecraft Services and Infrastructure team is looking for a Principal Engineer to drive reliability and efficiency in our tools and services and to improve the overall player experience. Your role will be to provide technical leadership, ensuring best practices in code development and designing scalable solutions, and enhancing engineering practices by taking end-to-end ownership for development and quality-related cloud hosted service infrastructure, microservice development, and deployment technologies. You will work closely with Services and Infrastructure engineering developers, partner teams, and other disciplines (Design, Production, and Quality) to enable player scenarios and improve the ability of our teams to create reliable services and performant experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team ensuring alignment with architectural goals and best practices for cloud hosted infrastructure and services.
- Architect and implement scalable and maintainable infrastructure, service and deployment solutions.
- Contribute to the development of engineering processes and methodologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of service developers across the organization.
- Drive alignment on infrastructure concerning a shared vision, strategy, and planning.
What you’ll need to succeed
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding languages including, but not limited to, Java/C#/Python and C, C++.
- Proven understanding of Azure for cloud-based architectures, compute, storage, cache, or comparable cloud-based web service resources.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven understanding of deployment strategies or technologies including, but not limited to, infrastructure as code (ie. Terraform or Ansible), GitOps, Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a service-oriented mindset.
- Experienced in mentoring teams and less experienced engineers.
- Ability to communicate strategic recommendations to the team and leadership.
What You Need to Know
We’re looking for candidates who are eligible to work in Sweden. Since our hybrid work model requires two onsite days per week, you’ll need to be based in Stockholm to collaborate with your team and soak up the studio energy.
We are happy to welcome international talent and talent outside Stockholm; however, we will not be able to financially support your relocation. If you are located out of Stockholm, relocation is a must.
Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game developer. The company was founded in Stockholm, Sweden and has offices around the world, including Stockholm, Redmond, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai. We’re always working on new and exciting ways to expand the Minecraft universe.
Our community is global and incredibly diverse. We keep this in mind when developing anything, as we want people to feel included in Minecraft. And in recruiting, our goal is to make Mojang Studios as diverse as our community.
We got started as a tiny indie developer, and part of our culture still reflects that heritage. But we’re also proud to belong to Xbox Game Studios, which creates unique opportunities to grow and develop.
To help us achieve amazing things, we have built an equally amazing studio space. Situated right on the water by Söder Mälarstrand, it’s filled to the brim with all the tools, toys and caffeine required to create world-class entertainment.
But 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!
Important note on resumes
Please make sure that all the information in your resume is accurate because we will conduct a thorough background check. Any discrepancies will lower your chances of getting to the next interview stage and we’d hate to miss out on an awesome candidate! Double check that any gap years are reflected in your history, and that your education and work experience are completely accurate. Good luck!
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What We Do
Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game studio based in Stockholm (Sweden) and Redmond (WA) with additional locations in London, Shanghai, and Tokyo as well as a partially remote workforce. We created Minecraft, the sandbox video game turned franchise that now includes two more games, novels, board games, apparel, and much more.
We believe in the power of play and our mission is to build a better world through our work. At our studios, you’ll meet passionate and welcoming people with the same goal: to create games and products with a positive impact. Four core values guide everything we do:
Fuel Passion.
Minecraft encourages players to stay sharp and constantly evolve. We mirror that by bringing together enthusiastic people who are eager to innovate in their fields and giving them the resources to reach their goals. We’re passionate about our industry and strive to empower our employees and future generations of gaming professionals.
Create Fun.
We aim to create fun, enriching experiences for our players, whether they’re playing our games, learning in Minecraft Education, or discovering a new product. Thanks to our incredibly talented creator community and Minecraft Marketplace, the fun is virtually endless and there’s something for everyone in our blocky universe.
Celebrate Creativity.
Creativity is at the core of Minecraft, whether you’re making art in Creative mode or finding clever ways to get through the night in Survival mode. Fresh ideas, out-of-the-box thinking, and new perspectives are what allows us to evolve the franchise and keep surprising our players after more than a decade of Minecraft.
Craft together.
Minecraft welcomes everyone because we believe that we’re better together. Our players’ feedback and the work of our community creators have made Minecraft what it is today. To support collaboration in our studios, we’ve built comfy, connected spaces that allow our local and remote teams to work closely together.
