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Join Constellation!

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The 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 Senior Backend Programmer, you will…

  • Implement, test, and maintain high-performance, observable, scalable backend game systems in Go such as matchmaking, seasons, and crash reporting

  • Support the integration of backend features with clients by:

    • Exposing secure RESTful APIs

    • Implementing client SDKs

    • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure APIs are used correctly by integrators

  • Work with designers and other stakeholders to provide technical designs, implementation plan, and timelines for new features and systems

  • Participate in a rolling 24/7 on-call schedule to address live issues if they arise

  • Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and security of backend systems

  • Troubleshoot and resolve backend performance issues and bottlenecks using observability tools to identify and resolve issues proactively

  • Mentor junior engineers and help maintain high coding standards through code reviews, best practices, and automation

  • Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends to drive innovation in backend architecture

Qualifications

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

  • You have 4+ years of building web APIs in Go

  • You have C++ experience

  • You have experience working in a Linux development environment

  • You have experience working with either AWS or Azure

  • You are familiar with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD tools

  • You have experience modeling data in NoSQL (MongoDB, DocumentDB, Redis, etc…)

  • You have experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, InfluxDB, Splunk) for monitoring, logging, and tracing distributed systems

  • You have experience with version control systems (GitHub preferred)

  • You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing detailed technical documents

  • You have an understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture

  • You have experience building and supporting distributed systems at scale

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

  • You have experience with TypeScript, React, and Redux

  • You have knowledge of network protocols, security best practices, and multiplayer game architecture