Software Engineer

Who We Are

We’re Sandbox VR, the most advanced virtual reality experience in the world. Our mission is to bring people closer together through world-class immersive experiences. When guests step into one of our stores, our full-body motion tracking gear and Hollywood motion capture cameras make them the stars of their own movies. Groups freely roam our large-open “holodecks” together, relying on each other to succeed in social experiences. Whether it’s venturing into space, battling on the high seas, or surviving a zombie apocalypse, our experiences take our guests on a journey they won’t forget!

Since launching in 2017, we’ve become the location-based VR industry leader. As we continue to expand globally, there’s never been a better time to join the Sandbox VR team. We take pride in the relationships we are building within our communities by providing world-class experiences for our guests and our employees. Here, we value humility and have built a collaborative environment, ensuring that our guests, and our teammates all win collectively. If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love you to join us, as we build the future of entertainment.

At Sandbox VR, we're redefining immersive entertainment. As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you’ll help build the platform behind the world’s most advanced VR experiences enjoyed by millions worldwide. You’ll join a versatile and ambitious Store Platform Engineering Team that pushes the boundaries of virtual reality by solving complex technical challenges and developing scalable systems. In this role, you’ll design modular, reusable software components and work closely with cross-functional teams to seamlessly integrate cutting-edge technologies, advancing our vision of bringing people together through location-based entertainment.

What You'll Do:

• This is a full-stack software engineering role, supporting our in-store platform

Core Platform

• Advance our core low latency system to redefine immersive VR experiences
• Develop solid and friendly SDKs to enable others to build content running on top of our platform

Platform Automation

• Develop new features to empower our store and business operations
• Prototyping telemetry, observability, experimentation, and diagnostics system
• Streamline and minimize Ops cost on deploying our platform globally

Connecting Hardwares

• Explore and evaluate current and emerging hardware technologies (in house and 3rd party) for our platform
• Develop novel solutions and prototypes to demonstrate concepts and feasibility

Who We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s), Go/Rust/C# are preferred
• An ability to break down complex problems and lead efforts to design and implement practical solutions
• A good understanding of system architecture principles and the ability to make informed tradeoffs between scalability, performance and maintainability
• Proven experience with performance optimization, can effectively identify and solve system bottlenecks
• An optimistic mindset that believes any skill can be learned and any solution can be tried, i.e. excited to help build something no one's built before
• (Strong Plus) Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and benchmarking/automation tool running in on-premise hybrid OS (Linux/Windows) infrastructures
• (Strong Plus) Experience with developing VR or Unity software
• (Strong Plus) Experience with developing open source software and SDKs

What We're Offering:

• Unlimited time off
• 13th month bonus
• Hybrid work environment
• Significant equity grants in a rapidly growing organization
• Robust medical benefits

Sandbox VR is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.