Remote US / Canada
Senior Multiplayer Engineer
Posted:
20 days
Programming
Full-Time
Senior
About thatgamecompany
thatgamecompany is best recognized for creating award-winning, enriching, and meaningful game titles such as Journey, Flower, and flOw. Sky is our most complex undertaking to date. It is a social network built around the values inherited from a powerful humanistic story. It is a live experience continuously evolving inside a global online theme park. We are also working on an unannounced game, look out for it soon!
If you believe games can bring out the best in us, we'd love to hear from you!
Senior Multiplayer Engineer
For Sky: Children of the Light, thatgamecompany has developed a real-time, multiplayer game server system capable of handling a massive amount of concurrent users. Providing a reliable and low latency experience for our players is a priority. We build, test, and maintain systems for account and login, resource scaling, seamless matchmaking, and live updates. We need your help developing and scaling these mission critical systems so that we can continue providing impactful multiplayer experiences to people around the globe. If this sounds interesting to you, get in touch!
On any given day at TGC, you might:
- Create and maintain high volume C++ game server systems to sync player state in a reliable, secure, and scalable manner
- Create and maintain high volume Golang supporting backend services
- Monitor and diagnose problems in the live environment, fixing them in a timely manner
- Keep improving our backend architecture and development workflow to deliver the optimal experience to the player, as well as benefit everyone in the studio
- Help guide future multiplayer technology, systems, and architecture design
You should:
- Be a fan of TGC games and excited about enhancing the player experience
- Have 3+ years experience working on the back-end for an MMO or high-volume, low-latency web services
- Be fluent in C++
- Be comfortable working with game client teams to support network communication
- Experience with UDP, bit-level serialization, delta compression, and other techniques for developing efficient network code for real time games
- Be comfortable integrating with external backend services via various protocols
- Have strong opinions on the different approaches to managing network communication, resource scaling, automated deployment, security, reliability, and data tracking/analysis
- Be familiar with creating unit tests, stress tests, and integration tests
- Be proficient debugging in network environments
- Be proficient in Linux
It would be great if you also:
- Have experience with AWS or GCP
- Have experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker
- Have experience with bare metal deployment
- Have experience with both relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Have experience with Golang, or Erlang and functional programming
We look forward to meeting you!
Perks:
- Paid Time Off, Holidays and Two Weeks Winter Break
- Employees and their dependents get medical, dental, and vision coverage, regardless of their level, tenure, or position within the company. Moreover, these benefits start on the first day of the job—there’s no waiting period before they kick in.
- Pet Insurance for those who need it too.
- Compassionate leave for employees who needs to take care of their family members
- Pre-tax wellness stipend
- Pre-tax work from home stipend
- Access our savings plan (401K program) with company match
- Mental health resources including Headspace membership and Employee Assistance Program (CCA)
- Discount portal for everyday goods and services
- Employee inclusive and diversity initiatives such as Grow Together
- Support for personal professional development
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. or Canada. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
The salary range for this position is $95,000 USD to $177,000 USD annually, with the
opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. This salary range is an estimate, and
the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.
Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Company’s standard
employee benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, vision,
401k, and paid time off.
opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. This salary range is an estimate, and
the actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices.
Employees in this position are eligible to participate in the Company’s standard
employee benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, vision,
401k, and paid time off.
Life At thatgamecompany
thatgamecompany takes pride in cultivating a close-knit team culture and company vision.
We believe that games should be played, shared and enjoyed by everyone. By shifting our mission and approach on what it means to create a game, we aim to nurture a welcoming environment where team members can experiment, collaborate and support each other to create truly innovative games. We value our team’s integrity, personal growth and contribution at every step.
All team members are expected to contribute to making our studio a more inclusive, positive environment for great people and great work to grow and flourish. If you feel an affinity for our work and wish to make a meaningful contribution to our mission, we would love to hear from you.
About thatgamecompany
thatgamecompany is best recognized for creating award-winning, enriching, and meaningful game titles such as Journey, Flower, and flOw. Sky is our most complex undertaking to date. It is a social network built around the values inherited from a powerful humanistic story. It is a live experience continuously evolving inside a global online theme park. We are also working on an unannounced game, look out for it soon!
If you believe games can bring out the best in us, we'd love to hear from you!
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