Platform Engineer

Posted: about 3 years

Programming

Full-Time

We are a distributed company and have been since 2014. We organize around two time zones, Pacific Standard Time (UTC -8), and UTC 0 (GMT). While we prefer people to be in those timezones, we do make exceptions!

Platform Engineers at ControlZee are programmers who work on our custom game engine and tools to enable users to play and make awesome games. Although platform engineering is a very technical role, engineering is always a means to an end: to deliver amazing features to users. This is a full-time position.

Important note

We have intentionally removed academic qualifications from all our job specs. We welcome applicants of all ages, genders, work histories and academic qualifications who can demonstrate the requirements below. Our work environment is welcoming and open. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and work hard to make sure everyone in the company has a voice.

Responsibilities

Develop new platform features, improve and maintain existing features
- Build features for the dot big platform that enable users to do amazing things.
- Work closely with our Community Engineers and our Creator Community to ensure that features are meeting their requirements.
Work with our community engineering team and internal content creators
- Our community engineering team and internal content creators are the first people to use new platform features as they’re developed. You will work closely with them to gather feedback and get features ready for release.

Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to ship engine features on production games.
Demonstrated ability to write clean and easy to understand engine code.

Bonus

Networked multiplayer gameplay programming experience is a huge bonus, but not essential.

How to apply

Each application should consist of:

A CV/Resume listing the games, prototypes or demos you’ve worked on that meet the qualifications above, specifically what you did for each one, and examples of code where possible.

Job Expired

About ControlZee Inc.

ControlZee is a San Mateo based startup developing dot big bang.

History

ControlZee Inc. was founded in 2016 by Robert Anderberg, Jon Stockwell, Jacques Menuet and Porter Schutz to build dot big bang, a brand new kind of game platform.

They raised $3M in 2018, hired Charles Palmer, Vilhelm Sævarsson and Pennie Quinn in 2018 and 2019, and launched the platform alpha and Straits of Danger in 2020.

dot big bang

dot big bang is a platform that enables people to play and create video games with friends anywhere, on any device, instantly and share them with a massive, interactive audience.

For Creators

dot big bang enables creators to build cooperatively with friends. Seamless cross-play on all devices means everyone can join in wherever they are.

Instant access to a huge library of ControlZee and community-created content enables creators to quickly bring their ideas to life and when creating new content, creators have full control over whether their content is remixable, or only used in their own games.

Creators will be able to earn money from their content in dot big bang.

For Players

Players can take part in brand new experiences with thousands of other players, get closer to their favorite streamers than ever before, and jump in and play wherever they are.

For Influencers

dot big bang enables influencers to interact in real-time with thousands of players in the same game.

Influencers can create and play games and have their entire audience jump in and play with them, affecting the world and seeing feedback in real-time. For more information on building a massively-interactive game using dot big bang, or to stream an existing game to a large audience please contact us.

Platform features:

Tiny cross-platform high-performance web-based game engine.
Seamless multiplayer with cross-play on all platforms, play with anyone, even if they don't have an account.
Instant game distribution: seconds from click to play.
Integrated multiplayer game development tools, supported on all platforms.
Social layer (following, likes, comments)
Constellation: interact in real-time with thousands of players in the same game.

Platform Engineer

About ControlZee Inc.

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