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Full Time Job

Online Engineer

Sledgehammer Games

Melbourne, Australia 01-26-2022
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Entry (0-2 years) Experience
Job Description
Your Platform

Your Mission

You will build the features that connect our users. You will work with game designers and gameplay engineers to prototype, design, implement, and optimize the transmission and storage of the data that drives our games.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Build the server-side components of in-game features
• Build and maintain client libraries that expose online features to gameplay and UI engineers
• Optimise multiplayer netcode and data payloads
• Collaborate with designers and DevOps engineers resolve optimal solutions
• Detail technical designs and instructions
• Instrument and analyse telemetry during development and LiveOps timeframes

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree or relevant field
• 1+ years of industry experience as an online engineer
• Confirmed C/C++ skills
• Familiar with Python
• Proficient with debugging real-time applications
• Understanding of network, multi-threaded and concurrent programming
• Experience maintaining security of server endpoints and systems
• Collaborative and communicative across subject areas
• History working with Windows development and run-time environments
• Passion for developing high quality games
• Basic experience with databases

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gpv490-3-141-31-240-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Sledgehammer Games

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment.