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Build Programmer

ZeniMax Media Inc.
Rockville, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 2/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/17/2025

Overview

Join Constellation!

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind StarfieldThe Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

 

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

 

As Build Programmer, you will…

 

  • Work with the game technology leads to design and define development infrastructure
  • Be responsible for end-to-end development infrastructure systems from game code changes to reporting systems
  • Be responsible for client and server build and deployments systems
  • Be responsible for automated testing and reporting systems
  • Write clear, maintainable, portable code
  • Test and refine code and systems throughout the development cycle of the project
  • Accurately estimate your schedules and deliver high quality work products to that schedule

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

  • You have expertise in cross platform build systems in Linux and Windows
  • You are knowledgeable in multiple branched environments
  • You possess basic Linux System Administrator knowledge
  • You have good knowledge of Python
  • You have strong knowledge of continuous integration pipeline
  • You possess strong interpersonal skills and problem-solving ability

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

  • You have professional software development experience in C
  • You are an expert with performance profiling tools
  • You have experience with SQL
  • You're knowledgeable of web programming (PHP, etc.)
  • You have familiarity with bot driven automated systems
  • You have familiarity with game patching systems
  • You have familiarity with server deployment systems
  • You have familiarity with asset dependency systems
  • You have familiarity with basic statistics
  • You have game industry experience

Salary Range

Build Programmer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $75,000 - $160,000 per year.

           ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

 

At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases, discretionary bonus and/or equity awards. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.

 

This is position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

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