Server Engineer

Server Engineer Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. As a server engineer at Penrose, you will build the servers and backend systems that bring people together in virtual worlds. Responsibilities Design and build a massively scalable backend system and assist developing the project architecture. Build and maintain server code bases. Collaborate with client-side developers and the content team. Identify and resolve issues with network latency, reliability, and scalability. Evaluate hosting providers and SDKs. Requirements A minimum of 5 years server and network programming experience. Experience developing the large-scale backend system for a real-time application or MMO game. Strong knowledge of C++, Python, C, C#, or Java. Experience with a variety of backend & database technologies and with making architectural trade-offs. Comfortable wandering around unexplored application/game design territory, and excited to contribute to refining ideas. Collaborative mindset and ability to communicate effectively. Penrose is based in San Francisco, and also operates remotely.