Senior Engineer, Full-Stack Technology - Minecraft

Location: Redmond, Washington, United States; hybrid schedule with 3 days per week in-office

Salary: USD $119,800–$234,700 per year across the U.S.; IC5 range: USD $142,800–$274,800 per year. Higher ranges apply to specific locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.

Company

hirify.global Studios creates Minecraft and develops software that enables millions of players and creators to connect, play, and build together.

What you will do

• Lead technical design and implementation across user interfaces, application logic, APIs, services, and data integrations.
• Build production software with automated testing and standards for accessibility, security, privacy, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with design, product, and engineering partners to translate requirements into end-to-end technical solutions.
• Improve usability, reliability, and performance using telemetry, user feedback, testing, and operational learning.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, CI/CD, and management of cross-team dependencies.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 8+ years of technical engineering experience, bachelor’s degree with 12+ years, or equivalent experience.
• Production coding experience with one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience with modern client or web application frameworks, backend services, API design, scalable data storage, automated testing, GitHub, CI/CD, and code reviews.
• Experience building and operating production applications across user interfaces, application logic, APIs, and data integrations.
• Experience with observability, performance profiling, end-to-end testing, dependable releases, and cross-team technical dependencies.
• Strong communication, technical mentorship, and collaboration skills, with knowledge of the games industry.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating model-backed features, retrieval, or agentic workflows into usable products.
• Experience designing accessible interfaces and improving user journeys through telemetry, customer feedback, usability work, and controlled experiments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global and diverse Minecraft community.
• Collaborate with creative, product, design, engineering, and non-technical partners.
• Benefits and additional compensation may be available.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.