Principal Engineer

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!