Principal Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (Gamedev): Owning the platform for product teams to expose their APIs, authorize access, publish docs, and communicate with users. Focus on developing new features that help creators make complex experiences, including live game operations at many-million-player scale.

Location: Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $293,800—$343,340 USD

Company

hirify.global is building the tools and platform that empower community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life.

What you will do

• Own the platform for product teams to expose their APIs, authorize access to them, publish docs, and communicate with users.
• Develop new products and features that help creators make complex experiences including live game operations at many-million-player scale.
• Support core systems at massive scale including how players move between game servers, how game servers communicate with each other, and how experiences interact with on and off platform services.
• Build solutions that will make hirify.global work better on every device.

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Deeply familiar and regularly work with concepts like stream processing, leader election, RPC, retry strategies, etc.
• 3+ years of experience in C++ to support working on full stack features that involve the hirify.global engine & our backend systems.
• Familiar with raw & managed memory access, pointers, thread safety, locking primitives, inter-process communication methods, network sockets, HTTP etc.
• Ability to jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms.
• Build systems with proper telemetry, logging, operations and automated testing in mind.

Culture & Benefits

• All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
• hirify.global provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.
• hirify.global also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.