💰 $140,000 - $220 🌍 San Francisco 📅 05/01/2024
Argus Labs is building the next generation of massively multiplayer online
(MMO) games by empowering players with the extensive freedom to build, extend,
and influence the game worlds they inhabit. Our approach is centered around
World Engine, our state-of-the-art onchain game server framework.
World Engine leverages a novel sharded rollup blockchain architecture, which
allows games to use smart contracts for user-generated content (UGC) while
scaling to tens of thousands of concurrent users without compromising
performance. To date, World Engine is the most performant blockchain designed
from the ground up for games and has been used in production for games like
[Dark Frontier](https://twitter.com/DarkFrontierGG), processing 700K+ player
transactions within a week.
### **Backed by the best**
We raised $10 million in seed funding led by Haun Ventures ($1.5B crypto fund
led by former a16z GP, Katie Haun) with participation from influential angel
investors in tech and gaming such as Elad Gil and Balaji Srinivasan (ex-
Coinbase CTO).
### **Learn about who we are and our technology**
* <https://argus.gg>
* <https://world.dev>
* <https://twitter.com/ArgusLabs_>
### Responsibilities
* Develop and maintain the core game technology infrastructure that serves as the backend for our game worlds
* Architect systems that allow games, marketplaces, and user-generated content/platforms to communicate and interoperate seamlessly
* Work closely with game designers and other software engineers to ensure that our technology meets the needs of our games and players
* Continuously improve and optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of our infrastructure
### Requirements
* 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a focus on distributed systems or backend.
* Strong understanding of distributed systems principles and algorithms
* Proficiency in Go with prior experience shipping production-grade code
* Experience with container orchestration software (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
* Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
* Passion for games and game technology
### Nice to have
* Experience with game technology infrastructure development and/or game engine development
* Proficiency in Rust
* Experience leading an engineering team
* Experience with blockchain core protocol engineering
* Experience with Cosmos SDK
### Perks & benefits
_For full-time employees_
* A note for the game industry veterans: no crunch :-)
* Flexible PTO (2 weeks required) + holidays
* 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance (US)
* 401k (US)
* Up to $1500 desk set-up stipend
* Company retreats
_We’re an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for
employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status._
