[Hiring] Senior Networked Gameplay Programmer @Innersloth

Role Description

We’re looking for someone to help us build and refine the real-time multiplayer systems behind Among Us and our future titles. Your hard work will affect millions of players around the world.

• Focus on networked gameplay: designing, implementing, testing, reviewing, and maintaining the networked gameplay systems.
• Contribute to broader backend systems and infrastructure, including:
  • Matchmaking
  • Server-authoritative security and anti-cheat
  • Deployment pipelines
• Report to the Backend Programming Director and take technical direction from the Backend Architect.
• Work alongside the rest of the Backend team and external development partners.
• Willingness to learn and help is essential due to overlapping responsibilities in a small team.

Qualifications

• Proactivity, independence, and accountability are extremely important.
• Aptitude for working well with others, handling conflict, and understanding backend technology.
• Experience and skills that are strongly preferred:
  • 5+ years of experience and excellent knowledge of C#.
  • Excellent knowledge of server-side programming.
  • Experience with version control/asset management systems.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to give, process, and accept feedback.
  • Collaborate and work well in a team-based, dynamic, cross-functional setting.
  • Highly organized and able to work independently.
  • Strong attention to detail.
  • Experience diving into an existing codebase.
  • Experience with real-time multiplayer games, particularly server-authoritative models.
  • Experience with real-time state synchronization, including physics state synchronization.
  • Strong debugging and investigative skills.
  • Experience creating maintainable, scalable systems and architectures.
  • Experience with technologies including RUDP, NATS Messaging, MongoDB, Orleans, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, Multiplay, Linode, and Ubuntu.
  • Collaborative, respectful, and kind approach to working with others.
  • Experience following and refining inter-department processes.
• Nice to have:
  • Experience working in games, particularly live service games.
  • Comfort with Go and/or Typescript.
  • Experience with low-level network programming.
  • Experience with designing or implementing skill-based matchmaking algorithms.
  • Familiarity with the Among Us IP.
  • Education related to the role is an asset but not required.

Requirements

• Design, implement, and review networked gameplay systems.
• Design, implement, and review state synchronization, replication, prediction, interpolation, and reconciliation systems.
• Profile and optimize networked gameplay systems for reliability and performance.
• Implement general backend features to support multiplayer game titles.
• Contribute to backend infrastructure design, implementation, operations, and maintenance.
• Debug code issues and implement bug fixes.
• Develop and improve matchmaking systems.
• Contribute to server-authoritative security and anti-cheat systems.
• Deploy server-side applications.
• Write technical design proposals and help review other team members’ proposals.
• Help continuously improve our process through retrospectives and feedback.
• Work with external partners.
• Review code written by others.
• Test your own code and assist in testing team members’ work.
• Assist with deployment of applications and updates to various environments.
• Occasionally check monitoring dashboards and backend system alerts for problematic trends.
• Report to the Backend Programming Director while working closely with other team members.
• Incorporate technical direction from the Backend Architect and other technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrate ownership and autonomy while delivering project priorities on time.

Benefits

• A Full-time job from the comfort of your home.
• A competitive salary.
• Benefits appropriate for the role, including health, retirement, vacations, etc.
• A guarantee of job safety and stability for a few years.
• A small collection of friendly, diverse workmates and partner companies.