Live Services Engineer

Online Services Programmer

Firaxis Games is looking for an Online Services Engineer to help enrich our games with services such as matchmaking, player stats, leaderboards, analytics, entitlement platforms, anti-cheat and security, customer service tools, and more.  

What You Will Do:

• 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.

What We Need (Requirements/Must Haves)

• Strong C++ programming and debugging skills.

• 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 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.

• Experience with current console systems is a plus.
  
  

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