Principal Software Engineer (Game Development)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Game Development): Leading the Engine Networking Team to ensure seamless communication of game state and a nearly synchronous world experience for players, with an accent on asset loading, rendering, and real-time networking. Focus on optimizing performance, reducing latency and throughput challenges in large-scale multi-player game engines and distributed systems.

Location: Hybrid (San Mateo, CA, United States)

Salary: $289,460–$338,270 USD

Company

hirify.global is building tools and a platform for a global community of developers and creators to bring immersive 3D digital experiences to life, aiming to connect a billion people worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor engineers with 8+ years of industry experience.
• Drive improvements in game networking and asset loading to ensure a smooth player experience.
• Work across the entire game platform to achieve real-time communication.
• Optimize the CPU usage for smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and memory blocks.
• Analyze and reduce network exchange latency to improve overall performance.
• Understand and leverage operating system level operations for code execution.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of industry experience, with prior work on the internals of a multi-player game engine.
• Proven expertise in solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments.
• Experience with very large multithreaded distributed systems connecting millions of users globally.
• Proficiency in C++ programming with a deep understanding of systems-level operations.
• Familiarity with the devices hirify.global supports, including desktop, mobile, and console clients.

Nice to have

• Passion for working with open source.
• Experience with asset loading, rendering, and networking from a Game Engine/Studio context.

Culture & Benefits

• Shape the future of human interaction and solve unique technical challenges at scale.
• Contribute to creating safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
• Access to equity compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• Flexible work arrangements with optional presence on Monday and Friday.
• Opportunity to work in a collaborative and innovative environment.