Responsibilities

• Architecture Design: Collaborate with the core team to design the overall architecture for our backend services. This includes researching ways to integrate Unity clients and .NET libraries into existing and in-development Netflix infrastructure and backend tech. Come up with practical architecture designs, discover any external cloud services we might need, build demos to test and verify any tech/production constraints, and ultimately make our social games online.
• Feature Implementation: Implement business logic in our backend and shared libraries. This includes features like parties, lobbies, matchmaking, game session management, and player progression. You will also need to provide a way of quickly iterating on design updates, collecting analytics, and monitoring overall performance.
• Infrastructure Pipelines: Support CI/CD for backend server code changes and think of creative ways to improve efficiency for the developer experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a backend engineer shipping multiple large-scale products
• Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud technology workflows
• Familiarity with at least one ASP.NET UI framework (MVC, Razor Pages, or Blazor)
• Expertise with modern .NET and C# in both Windows and Mac environments
• Exceptional communication and cross-discipline collaboration skills
• Passion for making video games, especially in a rapid, focused, smaller form vs multi-year investments

Bonus Skills

• Backend experience with Java, Go, or Node
• Familiarity with RPC frameworks, especially gRPC
• Familiarity with Linux build and deployment automation
• Familiarity with the Unity game engine
• Experience integrating services with data and analytics pipelines
• Experience building products while the platform is being built

Location

• Los Angeles Preferred/Remote