Live Services Engineer

Summary

Join Firaxis Games as an Online Services Engineer to enhance our games with services like matchmaking, player stats, and leaderboards. Collaborate with internal and external teams, becoming a domain expert in our online service platforms. Design and implement modifications and optimizations to our codebase, working closely with the game team to maintain online service functionality. Maintain your skills by staying updated on industry innovations. Solve complex problems in gaming and online services, adhering to coding style and practices. This role requires 3+ years of industry experience and strong C++ programming skills.

Requirements

• Strong C++ programming and debugging skills
• Experience with online service architectures, design patterns, and associated challenges
• Ability to come up with novel, inventive, solutions to very hard problems in the gaming and online services spaces
• Ability to adhere to the prevalent coding style and practices
• Self-motivated and passionate about games
• Able and motivated to work with other team members
• 3+ years industry experience

Responsibilities

• Work closely with internal and external online services platform teams, advocating for the game team
• Become a domain expert for our internal and external online service platforms
• Design and implement modifications, reorganizations, extensions, and optimizations to existing code base
• Work closely with the game team to build and maintain online service functionality within game clients
• Actively maintain skill-set and knowledge base by keeping track of the latest innovations from the industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Go programming language is a plus
• Strong AWS knowledge is a plus
• Strong understanding of analytics and telemetry
• Experience with Perforce, JIRA, TeamCity is a plus
• Experience with current console systems is a plus