Server Engineer

As a server engineer at Penrose Studios, you will be responsible for building the servers and backend systems that facilitate virtual world interactions. Your duties include designing and constructing a scalable backend system, contributing to the project's architecture, and maintaining server codebases. You'll collaborate with client-side developers and the content team to resolve network latency, reliability, and scalability problems, and also assess hosting providers and SDKs. This role involves navigating unexplored application/game design areas and refining ideas, requiring a collaborative mindset and effective communication.

Must Have

• 5 years of server and network programming experience.
• Experience with large-scale backend systems for real-time applications.
• Strong knowledge of C++, Python, C, C#, or Java.
• Experience with backend & database technologies and architectural trade-offs.
• Collaborative mindset and effective communication skills.

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. As a server engineer at Penrose, you will build the servers and backend systems that bring people together in virtual worlds.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a massively scalable backend system and assist developing the project architecture.
• Build and maintain server code bases.
• Collaborate with client-side developers and the content team.
• Identify and resolve issues with network latency, reliability, and scalability.
• Evaluate hosting providers and SDKs.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years server and network programming experience.
• Experience developing the large-scale backend system for a real-time application or MMO game.
• Strong knowledge of C++, Python, C, C#, or Java.
• Experience with a variety of backend & database technologies and with making architectural trade-offs.
• Comfortable wandering around unexplored application/game design territory, and excited to contribute to refining ideas.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively.