Question is seeking a network engineer with Unreal Engine multiplayer experience for a full time position to round out our team with ownership over matchmaking, session flow, and/or dedicated servers.
May 18, 2020
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Location: Remote
You connect people. Your tech helps them find their friends or make new ones - investing in a sense of presence and identity in a world that could last for years. You take on the challenges of online play that are unique and constantly evolving - a beast with many heads - and you have the sort of mind that craves the chance to slay it.
Question is seeking a network engineer with Unreal Engine multiplayer experience for a full time position to round out our team with ownership over matchmaking, session flow, and/or dedicated servers. Our last game was a multiplayer peer-to-peer game, and we wish to scale the team up to take this further using PlayFab’s matchmaking, crossplay, and dedicated server offerings. Your expertise in this field would grant you agency within the studio to define your role as well as the shape of the company as it enters its next phase of existence.
You would be working remotely from home with competitive salaries and benefits for U.S. residents with a distributed team made up of ex-AAA developers whose past team credits include: Thief: Deadly Shadows, BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock Infinite, Dishonored, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and South Park: Fractured But Whole. We draw on a long history of games with strong central narratives & diverse player-enabling systems with the goal of attempting to create new experiences in the same vein, but on a smaller scale.
Responsibilities
Provide both, high level and low level, direction for the client and backend server architecture
Implement client travel flow through various session patterns
Write documentation for the maintenance and upkeep of your systems
Provide technical insight regarding multiplayer gameplay design
Lead and discuss networked game system architectural decisions and best practices
Requirements
GEOGRAPHY
Must live within U.S. time zones from Pacific to Eastern time - We want office hours to overlap from West to East coast
Due to logistics issues, we can only offer benefits to U.S. residents.
NETWORKING EXPERIENCE
Required: Familiarity with Unreal Engine 4’s online subsystems and session APi
Required: Must have shipped a multiplayer game on consoles (PS4 and/or XboxOne)
Familiarity with online gaming backend services such as PlayFab, Azure, or AWS
Familarity with cyber security methods and practices
Knowledgeable about network protocols
Keen to understand each millisecond of network exchanges, knowing where the time goes and how to reduce waste
Nice to have: Experience with implementing network topography as it relates to dedicated servers
A) running Unreal Engine in headless mode
B) using third party online services
COLLABORATOR
A mind for good architecture that caters to human factors and minimizes technical debt… specifically in the context of Unreal Engine 4
Able to use or modify existing code instead of writing redundant new systems
Understands gameplay
Self driven quality standards:
Proactive about tackling new problems instead of waiting to be told
Able to write bug reports and feature requests for yourself
Reaching out to team members as needed
Be the first to test your own output
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
Expertise in C++
Ability to learn server-side programming languages as needed
Memory management - References and pointers vs. copy
Data structures, design patterns, and algorithms
Mastery of replication tactics and multiplayer development patterns
ALGORITHMIST
Systems design: Able to synthesize algorithms based on feature specifications AND teach that algorithm through writing and verbal discussions
Able to speak in terms of Big O notation and algorithmic complexity
Nice to Have: Understand common uses of dot product, cross product, normalized vectors, sine, and cosine in the context of gameplay programming
Optimizations: Able to learn and employ optimization techniques as needed
Interested? Apply now.
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