Senior Software Engineer (Venue-Scale Multiplayer)

Description

What will you do?

• Collaborate closely with the Interactive Lead to design and create large-scale multiplayer technologies for our venues
• Collaborate across teams to share gameplay and multiplayer code, best practice, and design language elements, and to improve the production pipeline
• Iterate on the integration of large-scale multiplayer components into cohesive tech demos and a unified gaming platform that can scale for live events
• Create solutions for scaling networked games through scripted and AI simulations
• Explore new platform services such as matchmaking and social features that can power our game platform and implement cross-platform abstractions for third-party online services
• Work alongside our Venue Tech, Systems, and DevOps teams to investigate, prototype, and inform server infrastructure and networking changes to support new gameplay features
• Write technical documentation and clearly communicate complex solutions and challenges, even to non-technical staff
• Stay current on relevant technology and conduct necessary research, due diligence, prototyping, and testing to assess emerging technology options, both internally and with various partners and vendors
• Identify areas that require attention and work with the production team to ensure time and resources are properly allocated
• Attend and update in daily scrums, bi-weekly sprint planning sessions, reviews, and retrospectives in accordance with the team’s Agile practices

• Computer Science BS/MS or equivalent experience
• 6+ years professional game engineering experience, including 2+ years developing multiplayer networking code
• Excellent communications and team relations skills
• Experience creating and architecting massively multiplayer video game software systems
• Expertise in C# and the Unity game engine
• Familiarity with socket I/O and lower level protocols, IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, etc.
• Strong understanding of how to mitigate issues of latency, bandwidth, and state sync
• Strong understanding of different networking models, and methods and situations for prediction and interpolation
• Excellent communication and team interaction skills
• Experience working in an Agile team and familiarity with Agile methodology

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with containerized environments (Docker, K8S)
• Experience working with backend cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Working knowledge of secure networking and of API security
• Working knowledge of load balancing and backend clustering methods
• Experience creating Software Development Kits
• Experience developing for iOS/Android mobile devices
• Experience developing using the Unreal game engine
• Experience with common games industry production software (MS Office, JIRA, Miro)
• Experience across all phases (concept to end-of-life) of at least one shipped AAA console or PC video game
• Interest and/or secondary skills in another key game development discipline (Game Design, Product Management, Art, Audio)

The Company requires that all individuals, subject to certain limited exceptions, be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.  The Company will consider requests for reasonable accommodations regarding this requirement.