Niantic’s Ingress game team seeks a Server Software Engineer to build and extend our live game.
Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of AR and other immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions. The Ingress team builds upon the Niantic Lightship platform to bring our augmented reality, real world game, Ingress, to our active player base.
The ideal candidate has a love for games and the ability to collaborate with Unity developers, technical artists, and game designers in order to build fun games at scale. We seek engineers with strong decision-making skills, great execution, and a willingness to learn.
You will work on all aspects of the Ingress backend server, from designing RPC protocols to writing game logic to deploying and monitoring the servers. Building systems with security and scalability in mind is a must.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and load test game servers using Java and Niantic's Lightship Platform.
- Debug and extend existing game systems that already operate at scale.
- Work with small team of engineers, designers, artists, and producers to deliver on a creative vision.
- Design schemas and RPC protocols for scalability, data integrity, and cost.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design reviews, and write unit tests.
- Deploy and monitor production game servers using both Kubernetes and App Engine.
- Always be thinking about our Ingress players and how to make their lives better.
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science or other technical major, or equivalent experience.
- Two to five years of proven experience.
- Experience with Google Cloud or AWS.
- Fluent in Java.
Plus If...
- You already enjoy Ingress.