We're looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team at Hypixel Studios, which collaborates remotely from around the world. Our members range from industry newcomers to experts with 25+ years of experience. Team members come from a diverse set of backgrounds, but share a common passion for building polished player-focused, community-powered games.
Join us on our mission to bring players together in an inviting, immersive world where they can make their mark. Hytale empowers creative expression across a spectrum of experiences including sandbox adventure, social play, minigames, and creativity using a suite of powerful and accessible tools.
As a Principal Engineer, you will work directly with the Technical Director and Engineering Leads to set architectural direction for the engine, game systems, and gameplay. While this is not a managerial role, it is one of the highest leadership positions on the Hypixel Engineering team. You will have wide-ranging influence across the surface area of the product to identify risks and challenges, and to be instrumental in addressing them.
In some cases, you will improve these problems through direct, hands-on coding, applying your experience to some of the hardest technical challenges in the game. In other cases, your solutions will involve mentoring other engineers to achieve the solutions on their own. In each case, you provide a role model for technical excellence that propels the team forward.
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Founded in 2018, Hypixel Studios Ltd is a team of more than 70 globally. Hytale is the studio’s first project. The company’s goal is to apply years of collective experience in the modding and minigame server scenes to independent game development, providing community-empowering games that meet the needs of players and content creators alike.
Hypixel Studios was acquired by Riot Games in April 2020. It continues to operate as an independent studio while leveraging Riot’s expertise, technology, and resources to support the development of Hytale.
Our teams across the globe have been working hard to make this a huge success, we are driven by a great culture which we nurture as well as a passion to thrive. If you are interested in learning more about Hytale, or would like the opportunity to join our talented team, visit www.hypixelstudios.com/jobs/ !