Amazon is all in on games. We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and esports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scales. We are looking for pioneers who can imagine and deliver cutting edge technology. If you are excited about the opportunity to invent and build with Amazon technology including AWS and Twitch, Relentless Studios is seeking an experienced gameplay engineer and wants to talk to you.

You are a Software Development Engineer with broad game development experience and excellent software engineering skills. You will work directly on a game team to create real-time, dynamic, robust, and varied gameplay systems and push the limits of Amazon Game Tech. Your team includes industry veterans of dozens of titles and strong expertise in live services. This is a rare opportunity to help shape the foundation of a team delivering multiple game titles. Successful candidates will have a track record of shipping quality game software and also excel at communication, customer focus, and collaboration with game designers and artists to deliver the best product.

As a Gameplay Engineer, you will be expected to:

Design, build, and own dynamic and robust systems and tools to deliver quality gameplay experiences to players in a live multiplayer game.
Help drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a industry leading user experience.
Execute the development of project plans and commitments, and then deliver consistently against those commitments.
Be an advocate for the gamer: Build games that thrill and entertain our players and create new ways to delight customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
3+ years of professional software engineering experience, working on multi-discipline teams.
1+ years of professional experience in gameplay engineering.
At least 1 released game on which you were a primary contributor.
Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithms, and data structures.
Advanced software engineering skills, including the ability to write expert-level, maintainable, and robust code in C++.
Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 4.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of game development experience with multiple shipped titles.
Mobile game development experience.
Console game development experience.
Live operations experience.
Has contributed source code changes to an in-house or third-party game engine.
Experience working on large scale, commercial online game services.
Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, artists, testers, and other developers.
Experience building tools and workflows supporting distributed teams.
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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