Principal Software Engineer, WebRTC

About the role

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Audio-Video-Communication team, you'll build our upcoming platform to bring multi-modal communication experiences—voice chat, 3D audio, and large-scale broadcast—to our users. You’ll work with Engineering Managers and Directors within our Engine team and report to the Manager of the Real-Time Communications team.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch the latest real-time communication platform from the ground up, designed to support billions of users.
• Employ best programming practices to write code that is efficient, maintainable, and scalable.
• Play a crucial role in introducing high-quality communication features/products on a wide range of devices, from mobile to high-end platforms.
• Enhance the robustness and performance of existing components.
• Collaborate with engineers across engine and partner teams to create synergistic solutions.

Requirements

• Over 8+ years of experience developing and deploying user-facing software products.
• Successfully deployed a high-quality, multi-service distributed system at scale with low costs.
• Familiarity with the challenges of working at scale and on constrained platforms like consoles or mobile devices.
• Experience in performance optimization (working in Kernel, Assembly, C, and memory management).
• Proficiency in C++ and an understanding of parallel/concurrent programming concepts.
• A grasp of industry standards, best practices, and design patterns.
• Approached problems from multiple perspectives, weighing the advantages and drawbacks of different solutions.

Skills

• Enthusiastic about crafting software programming environments for game developers, eager to apply insights from multiple programming ecosystems to our scripting environment.
• Able to navigate complex codebases.
• Developing systems that are not just effective but also resilient over time.
• Inquisitive, constantly learning and keeping abreast of the latest trends in scripting languages and programming environments.

Pay

Annual Salary Range: $295,250—$345,040 USD. The actual base pay is dependent upon professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs, and market demand.

Schedule

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Benefits

All full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.