Game developers repeatedly say that multiplayer game creation remains one of their hardest challenges; balancing ease-of-use with performance and flexibility remains unsolved. As a result, we've seen far too little innovation in multiplayer games over the last decade, while creativity in single-player games has flourished.
We are looking for an experienced networking and multiplayer developer to help us reimagine how multiplayer experiences are made on the engine which powers 50% of all games. Join a new team dedicated to creating a performant & flexible networking stack, and a modern development experience tailored to multiplayer games.
Responsibilities
- Design, and implement a fast and flexible network transport library
- Help define the feature roadmap for the networking library and development tools
- Implement encryption, delta compression, connection management and other low-level networking functionality
- Develop systems covering everything from lag compensation to game object replication.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of UDP/RUDP and typical game networking concepts
- Experience as a multiplayer or networking developer in a shipped a game
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience with high performance programming, multi-threading, and memory management
Bonus Points
- C# expertise
- Prior experience with the Unity engine
- Contributions to a Unity networking solution
About Unity Technologies
Unity is the world's leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity's platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
The company's 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
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