Server Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
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.
5 skills required
Job Details
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.
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About The Company
Penrose Studios is at the forefront of virtual reality as a storytelling medium. We’re a group of artists, engineers and storytellers, and we’re looking for an eclectic mix of talented individuals who are fast learners with driven personalities.
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