Alice & Smith
Live Backend Server Multiplayer - PlayFab 2.0 Azure LiveOps
🌍 100% RemoteFull-Time
Posted March 21, 2022
ABOUT ALICE & SMITH
Since 2014, Alice & Smith has established itself as a global leader, combining immersion, technologies and creativity as never seen before.
Since 2014, Alice & Smith has established itself as a global leader, combining immersion, technologies and creativity as never seen before.
Our clients include Microsoft, Twitch, Paradox Interactive, PUBG, NBA, Zynga, Funcom, Square Enix and many others...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ALICE & SMITH
- Bring dozen of persistent worlds online for more than 25 million peoples
- Be at ground zero of a new era in creativity and technology
- Scaling to 360 million API calls in 12hrs while watching a code jam of reverse proxy with Cloudflare edge worker
- Work with the top Unreal Engine Artist, Data Scientist, Global Client, and technologies still under NDA
- Play with 12 real-time camera streaming LIDAR and 4k video to 250 000 spectators
- Design edge architecture and server code execution with sub 60 ms latency from 250 cities around the world
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, develop, and maintain a highly distributed, scalable, low-latency multiplayer environment using high-quality code
- Implement systems that require a thorough understanding of the trade-offs between reliable and unreliable real-time data traffic
- Optimize code and memory for high performance and low latency
- Work closely with industry leaders in PlayFab liveops infrastructure and architecture
- Work closely with our clients and partners at Microsoft and Twitch
- Contribute innovative and original ideas on all aspects of game systems production and development
- Our telemetry and profiling team will help you build advanced real-time reporting and monitoring support tools
- Regularly update directors and stakeholders, collating feedback into tasks with your team
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Expert knowledge of game engine networking protocol, including: replication, node graphs, connections, sessions, and game-state serialization
- Experience in real-time networking, including: compensation for variable order and timing in data (interpolation/extrapolation, fast route optimizations)
- 2+ Years of commercial multiplayer gameplay system design in Azure Cloud
- 2+ Years of C# and .Net application development
- Strong knowledge of Azure Function, REST interfaces and microservice architecture
- Expertise in messaging protocol (AMQP / MQTT)
- Experience in Azure Service Bus or Events Hub
- Deep passion for Azure serverless architecutre and Cloudflare Worker Edge Computing
BONUS EXPERIENCE
- PlayFab Multiplayer Server and PlayFab Expertise
- XR Server for PlayFab and XR Server large-scale operations
- XR Analytics, XR Streaming Services, and XR Realtime Services
- Experience with SignalR and Message Hub
- Modern development practices: TDD, integration testing, automated testing
- Technical writing experience
- Experience working in Unreal Engine and Unity
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