343 Industries, the studio developing titles in the Halo universe, is looking for a Senior Networking Engineer to join our team working on the next installment of our franchise… Halo Infinite!

At 343 Industries, our mission is to inspire heroes and deliver wonder. We strive to elevate and amplify each other. The Core Game Systems team is responsible for developing the Slipspace engine and game systems features empowering designers and engineers to deliver Halo Infinite. The team partners with many engineering groups to power our new engine.

343 Industries has developed a set key studio values which simultaneously define, shape, and drive our workplace: https://www.343industries.com/studio. Candidates are expected to be familiar with these values and should be prepared to demonstrate ways in which they reflect this vision.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:
In the Games as a Service world of AAA game development, our client networking developers are responsible for all gameplay communication required for co-op. Our networking developers are responsible for ensuring a rock solid game experience for our players, even in sub-optimal networking conditions. 


Develop, implement, and support core gameplay networking components.
Deliver a reliable co-op game experience in campaign and multiplayer.
Develop and maintain high-quality code and contribute to best practices.
Optimize networking systems to ship on multiple platforms.
Collaborate with sandbox systems, gameplay teams and engineering.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Skills
 Shipped multiple AAA console and/or PC titles as a networking engineer or generalist with deep knowledge of network systems.
 Ability to identify problems and drive tangible results with limited guidance and oversight.
 Experience debugging and tracking down networking related issues; able to diagnose what it means when told the game â€œlagged out”.
 Experience programming with UDP and HTTP, gracefully handling errors and managing bandwidth.
 8+ years of professional C++ experience, working with both legacy and modern code.

Bonus Qualifications
Experience working with the Xbox One platform
Experience working with asynchronous C++ APIs

343Careers

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