Senior Server Programmer

Overview

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!

This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

• Implement, guide, and review client/server/engine tech for Fallout 76
• Easily dive in and become familiar with the game systems in our client/server engine
• Monitor, fix, and improve the performance and stability of the game
• Work closely with the game team to add system/engine level tech to support new game features
• Own memory management, network, persistence, asynchronous systems, and state management systems in Fallout 76
• Drive client server communications, synchronization systems, client/server validation, and security
• Develop and maintain foundational level engine tech that gameplay systems rely on
• Solve difficult bugs, problems, architectural dilemmas, or optimization issues
• Code review and mentor more junior team members
• Manage your time effectively with little to no guidance and prioritize work based on ROI and risk

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

• You bring 5–10 years of programming experience, primarily in AAA games and systems/engine-level development using C++.
• You demonstrate deep expertise in networking game features and awareness of the complexities of networked gameplay (replication of state, behaviors, physics, client/server breakdown of features and game systems)
• You have worked on large scale client/server systems (preferably in AAA games)
• You are an expert in programming in an asynchronous environment whether that be threaded, across frames, or across processes via a network
• You bring significant experience with service-based games
• You have previously written or owned a major part of a client/server architecture
• You have experience with persistence systems backed by different flavors of databases
• You have been responsible for coding and/or reviewing the code for most of the Skills listed below
• You have significant experience working in a Linux based environment including basic system administration and performance management
• You are familiar with Cloud Architecture in AWS and Azure and Dev Ops principles
• You have a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.

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

• Programming
  • Expert computer science fundamentals including design patterns, algorithms and algorithmic complexity, memory management, state/object management, compilation, execution, and asynchronous processing and how all these apply to game systems in C++
  • Expert understanding of OO principles including application of composition vs inheritance as well as SOLID principles as it applies to game systems in C++
  • Expertise in async programming principles and networked applications
  • Expertise in memory management systems
  • Expertise with one or more scripting-oriented languages like Python, Lua, Bash, Golang, or C#
• Client/Server/Multiplayer
  • Expertise in UDP and TCP based synchronization systems
  • Expertise with monitoring and logging systems and how to use efficiently
  • Expertise in how to ‘hide the latency’ and produce smooth seamless gameplay in a networked environment
  • Expertise in game state validation techniques that still maintain seamless gameplay
• Cloud Platform Proficiency
  • Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and how to work within a cloud‑based environment
  • Familiarity with major services and technologies available in Azure and AWS
• Database knowledge of basics for different database types (MySQL and variants and Mongo and variants) to the degree you can optimize and…