Software Developer, Parsec

The opportunity

Parsec creates ultra-low latency high-performance remote desktop technology that empowers creative professionals to work from anywhere businesses to embrace flexible workplaces and individuals to play together from anywhere. Were growing so that we can help leaders in gaming entertainment engineering and architecture build the things we love whether theyre in the office or working from home. Parsec is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unity.

Parsec is hiring a Senior Developer to join our small but talented native team working on our low latency game streaming app. The Parsec app is the foundation of everything weve accomplished as a company and the product our customers use and love daily. Were looking for someone who will join our team drive innovation in the core technology and mentor other engineers  be successful youll need to be able to jump into C code without breaking a sweat pursue hard problems that you have no prior experience with and build lean modularized maintainable code.

• Work with UI encoding / decoding networking input and much more across multiple platforms
• Jump into a C codebase on day one and confidently deploy code to more than 5 million people
• Be fascinated with building cutting edge technology in gaming from video rendering to UDP protocols
• Be obsessed with finding the right low latency solution to the challenges we face
• Listen to customer feedback interpret the needs of the broader community and find opportunities to delight our customers

• Hands on experience working in a production C codebase.
• Familiarity with macOS app development (e.g. IOKit Core Graphics window / input management) and shipping native apps on macOS.
• Familiarity with Windows desktop application development.
• A deep desire to learn improve a product and make customers happy.
• Experience working with globally distributed team.

• Familiarity with Linux / Ubuntu app development
• Familiarity with Windows Driver development
• Its definitely a bonus if youve worked in the video game industry or your wasd keys are worn out from playing too many games on your computer.

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa / immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees well‑being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.