Principal Software Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Gamedev): Ensuring smooth real-time communication and asset loading within hirify.global's multiplayer game engine with an accent on solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. Focus on working on devices hirify.global supports, from desktop to mobile and console clients, in a very large multithreaded distributed system.

Location: Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in San Mateo, CA, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $293,800—$343,340 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience
• Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source
• Work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of hirify.global.
• Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw
• Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste
• Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed

Requirements

• Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments.
• Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide.
• Worked on the devices hirify.global supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients

Culture & Benefits

• All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.