What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior/Staff/Principal Software Engineer (Backend/Distributed Systems) position at Argus Labs?
Argus Labs is building the next generation of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games by empowering players with the extensive freedom to build, extend, and influence the game worlds they inhabit. Our approach is centered around World Engine, our state-of-the-art onchain game server framework.
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World Engine leverages a novel sharded rollup blockchain architecture, which allows games to use smart contracts for user-generated content (UGC) while scaling to tens of thousands of concurrent users without compromising performance. To date, World Engine is the most performant blockchain designed from the ground up for games and has been used in production for games like Dark Frontier, processing 700K player transactions within a week.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the core game technology infrastructure that serves as the backend for our game worlds.
- Architect systems that allow games, marketplaces, and user-generated content / platforms to communicate and interoperate seamlessly.
- Work closely with game designers and other software engineers to ensure that our technology meets the needs of our games and players.
- Continuously improve and optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of our infrastructure.
Requirements
Nice to have
Perks & benefits
For full-time employees
We’re an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
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