Game Systems Engineer (C++)

Location: Fully remote; role listed in Eugene, Oregon, United States

Salary: $92,000–$110,000 per year

Company

hirify.global creates innovative, cross-platform live games and other interactive experiences for major publishers and entertainment properties.

What you will do

• Own the technical design, development, testing, documentation, rollout, and support of medium-complexity game features and systems.
• Translate product and creative goals into practical technical solutions while identifying dependencies, risks, edge cases, and tradeoffs.
• Break larger workstreams into tasks, estimate implementation, and coordinate work with one or two other engineers.
• Write readable, maintainable, well-tested, and defensive code in a large or unfamiliar codebase.
• Investigate difficult bugs and technical issues using debuggers, profilers, logs, source control, and documentation.
• Collaborate across engineering, design, art, production, QA, and content-creation teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant professional engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in C++ and familiarity with C#.
• Proficiency in at least three game-engineering domains, including areas such as gameplay, UI, animation, graphics, performance optimization, networking, online services, tools, or automated testing.
• Experience owning medium-complexity features or systems from technical design through rollout and ongoing support.
• Strong debugging, systems-thinking, communication, autonomy, code-quality, testing, and maintainability skills.
• Ability to work fully remotely while communicating progress, risks, dependencies, and requests for help clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping a commercial game, AAA project, or another substantial production release.
• Experience working across PC, console, or other platforms.
• Experience with performance optimization, memory management, multithreading, networking, backend services, tools, automated testing, build systems, or development workflows.
• Experience mentoring engineers or improving documentation, processes, and coding practices.
• Experience working directly with clients or external development partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Choice of remote, office, or hybrid work environments is supported across most roles.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match and employer-paid life insurance.
• Generous paid time off, 17–20 paid company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Employee assistance program, fitness club discounts, sports team sponsorship, annual company events, and project wrap parties.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Hiring process

• Application review followed by a phone screen.
• Interview and team interview stages.