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Senior Network Programmer, Boss Key Productions

Location: Raleigh, NC

Founded in 2014 by Cliff Bleszinski and Arjan Brussee, Boss Key Productions is a new videogame development studio based in the heart of Raleigh, NC. BKP believes in an agile, no-nonsense approach to product and studio building with an emphasis on high quality product in a friendly environment while remaining as transparent as possible to the gaming community.

Boss Key is currently partnered with Nexon to create Lawbreakers – a science fiction first-person shooter. Boss Key Productions is looking for a talented an driven Senior Network Programmer to help define and implement the best back-end architecture and online infrastructure for Lawbreakers.

Responsibilities

Work closely with the design and gameplay team to develop the entire network portion of our game, with a focus on servers and back-end service infrastructure

Create the back-end server infrastructure, including web, statistics, databases and game server hosting on 3rd party infrastructure

Diagnose and fix complex player impacting problems within the live environment

Setting up systems to deploy worldwide client & server versions & patches with minimal player downtime

Setup the player persistence back-end: 3rd party account, profile, statistics

Create back-end solutions for competitive leaderboards with in-game, app and web digestion

Implement commerce API

Implement advanced skill based and geographic matchmaking systems

Setup deep user tracking, analytics and support the creation of dashboards

Create load-testing test suites and analysis; and drive towards solutions

Create the client interface with the cloud systems and launcher

Managing and deployment of virtual machines

Support the game as a high availability service and maintenance

Be the key point of contact with 3rd parties

Requirements

At least 4 years experience as a network engineer on a high availability and high performing service

Have deep and current knowledge about multiplayer games architecture of the past 10 years

Excellent programming skills in C/C++

Proven knowledge and experience in setting up modern cloud and/or website architectures

Experience with UDP/TCP low-level network implementation

Experience with smart client and server patching

Low-level network knowledge such as packet capture (wireshark, tcpdump), routing, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, NAT etc.

Great communication skills and have a collaborative attitude with co-workers and external parties

Only individuals with a valid visa should apply

Plus

Prior experience running a ‘game as a service’ as an online programmer on a PC or console game

Experience with Python, Unix/Linux and/or REST APIs

Experience with AWS services architecture, roll-out and management

Interested? Apply now.

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