Welcome

welcome

Born to code? We’re Microsoft’s Global Product Development team, and we’re hiring top developers to work in Dublin, Ireland, and across Europe.

We use the latest technologies and work on everything from mobile phone operating systems up to global-scale datacenter clouds. Our developers code in the latest technologies (like Silverlight) and solve tough challenges on a daily basis.

Browse this site to find out about our people, our technology and the pioneering work we do. Email your CV to if you’re interested in joining our team.



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Work Environment

work environment

Foosball, Starbucks, Xbox 360, individual offices, high-speed wireless - we’ve got it all! How about an on-site gym, 100% cover health plan, and access to mass transit? Ditto. And remember to leave your suit at home.

Our workplace is dynamic, high-tech, innovative, and casual, and we support flexible work arrangements. We continuously invest in a healthy work/life balance for all employees.

Click on the links at left and the thumbnails below to read and see more about what it’s like to work at Microsoft.

Our state-of-the-art €42M office building features large offices and spacious common areas. Microsoft is consistently recognized as a top employer in Ireland, Europe, and worldwide. Our light-filled cafeteria is open for breakfast and lunch, with a diverse selection of food. We take our work – and our play – seriously. Remember, no spinning allowed at the foosball table! Our big sunlit atrium illuminates the cafeteria and Starbucks coffee lounge. Everybody gets individual offices, to express their individuality. Our building required the excavation of 22,000 cubic meters of granite rock. The “emerald isle” never fails to provide a bit of greenery. Microsoft has several buildings in Dublin, which include 3 cafeterias, 2 on-site gyms, and a company store. To unwind, sometimes we “test” games from our co-workers in the Xbox group. Our building is close to tram and bus lines and features a 322-space car park.

Available Jobs

available jobs

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We’re looking for creative people with a passion for technology. We have openings at all levels covering a wide range of skills.

Read through the job specs to learn more about our openings. Don’t worry if you don’t see a perfect match — if you think you’ve got potential, send in your CV.

Even if you’re not looking to switch jobs right now, send us an email to so we can get in touch in the future.

Meet the Team

meet the team

Our core strength is our people, some of whom are listed at left. Our developers are superstars, like one recent college grad who is a two-time Imagine Cup winner.

We’ve got diverse backgrounds, hailing from all over Europe and the rest of the world. We’re fluent in a lot of languages: C#, C++, ASP.NET, SVG, JavaScript, AJAX, SilverLight, SQL... (and over a dozen human ones as well).

We are agile enthusiasts and use scrum to manage our work (for more info on agile development, see this blog from Casper, one of our developers).

In our spare time, a lot of us write blogs (see our blogroll) and we enjoy life with our families and friends.

Team Blog

team blog

The 2 most recent posts are shown below or read the the full blog at blogs.msdn.com/gpde. Subscribe RSS Subscribe Atom

A couple of months ago some of us here in GPD-E Dublin got the chance to play with a development version of the new Zune HD . At the time the Zune team was still completing their work on the new device, however we managed to convince them to send us a...(read more)
In November I wrote about our Silverlight Treemap which visualises hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles. Microsoft’s Global Product Development - Europe team has now released this control through the Silverlight Toolkit . You can read more...(read more)

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Bubble Factory

Check out this cool SilverLight game, Bubble Factory, written by a developer on our team.