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Niantic is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to contribute to the server infrastructure supporting popular games like Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Ingress. This role involves tackling real-time indexing, querying, and aggregation challenges at a massive scale. The ideal candidate should be a self-starter with a strong technical background, capable of handling ambiguity and learning from failures.
Responsibilities:
- Build and design reliable, high-throughput, low latency and scalable server and networking systems.
- Build key components of the platform that developers can incorporate to create rich experiences in their games.
- Perform load testing, participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with other specialists, product managers, and other departments.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and coaching to junior engineers.
- Drive code reviews, maintain high coding standards, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.
- Oversee the entire product release cycle, including QA testing, load testing, and the establishment of metrics, monitoring, and alerts.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
Requirements:
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 6+ years of experience building reliable scalable platforms.
- Proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Go or C++ with working knowledge of Python, SQL.
- Experience building networked and distributed systems.
- Experience building concurrent and multi-threaded services.
- Lead and deliver solutions with company-wide impact to production environments, and provided tools to monitor, support and mitigate any issues.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.
- Involvement in high-level strategic planning that impacts overarching engineering initiatives.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading projects.
Niantic offers:
- A hybrid work environment with required in-office presence on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
- A total compensation package including base salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.
