Founding Real-Time Systems Engineer - Games - B2B

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Support the design of LIVESYNC's real-time processing architecture
• ▹Build systems to ingest and process high-frequency live event data
• ▹Build systems for validation, transformation, interpolation and synchronization
• ▹Build the networking and delivery layer between data providers and games
• ▹Design for latency, reliability, failure recovery and scale
• ▹Develop secure, observable cloud infrastructure
• ▹Work closely with the games engineer to optimize the full system
• ▹Design architecture so new data types and platforms can be added
• ▹Contribute to technical decisions, documentation and future hires

Requirements

• ▹Experience building real-time systems where timing, state and reliability matter
• ▹Strong experience in several of: real-time/distributed systems, multiplayer/game networking, WebSockets and high-frequency data, AWS or equivalent cloud, state synchronization, backend development (TypeScript, Go, Rust, C++)
• ▹Strong systems engineering skills, designing scalable real-time backend services
• ▹Systems design experience covering low-latency event processing and high-availability services
• ▹Troubleshooting complex production issues and performance bottlenecks

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with game server infrastructure, motion capture, sports tracking, telemetry, Photon or other live streaming systems

Soft skills

About the company

The client is a new company syncing real-world sporting event motion and positional data with gaming environments in real time, initially focused on sport and Roblox.