Senior Unreal Engine Networking Engineer

About the role

Please apply via our recruitment agency 8bit via https://8bitplay.com/jobs/senior-networking-engineer/
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Co-op sits on top of a large, deterministic factory simulation. Replication has to deal with hundreds of thousands of machines, not just a handful of characters.

You'll join a new game team as one of its first engineers, working closely with the Principal C++ Engineer and the Engineering Team Lead.

We're open to two setups: a 6 to 12 month freelance contract focused on networking, or a permanent role where networking is your speciality and you work as a generalist the rest of the time.

Your responsibilities

• Design and build co-op networking for the game, from session flow to replication

• Work with the Principal C++ Engineer so the sim stays in sync between players, without flooding bandwidth or introducing excessive delays

• Profile and fix network performance, latency, and desync issues

• Set up tooling to test multiplayer early and often

• Document and train the team in the networking model, so that Engineers and Designers can build features on it

Assignment

About you

You will likely have:

• 1+ shipped title where you worked on networking in Unreal Engine 4 or 5, in C++

• Hands-on experience with Unreal's replication system (including replication graph, dormancy), RPCs, and network relevancy

• Good judgement on what goes through Unreal replication and what the deterministic sim handles

• Experience with deterministic lockstep or input-based networking, or you can show how you would approach it

In addition, you may have:

• Experience with Steam networking or online subsystems

• Experience shipping co-op in a building, survival or factory game

• Experimented with the new UE replication system, Iris

• For the permanent role: broad Unreal experience outside networking

If you match most of this and the problem excites you, please apply.

What we offer

• Fully Remote: We employ directly inside Germany

• Flexible working hours!

• Paid overtime, on the rare occasions it happens

• A hardware budget to ensure you have the ergonomic setup and hardware you need to work comfortably

• A monthly personal growth allowance for courses, books or other learning material

• Focus days to research or learn new skills

• A yearly team gathering to meet and collaborate in person

• A yearly salary review to keep your pay in line with the market, and an automatic increase of 2% per year

Next Steps & How to Apply

Please apply via our recruitment agency 8bit via https://8bitplay.com/jobs/senior-networking-engineer/

We give you a decision within a few working days of each stage, and we aim for the whole process from the first interview to an offer to take four weeks or less.

For this role:

• The first technical conversation covers networking you've shipped and how you would network ours

• For the second technical round, we decide together on one of:

  • A whiteboarding session where we design together how co-op stays in sync with the factory simulation

  • A walkthrough of networking code you built, in code you are able to show us

We are happy to discuss any requested accommodation to the above process.