Senior Server Engineer

Six Foot was founded in 2000 as an interactive agency, building digital experiences designed to make connections between people, brands, and technology more human and meaningful.

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Server Engineer who understands what it takes to own and develop a world class live service backend. As a Senior Server Engineer with Six Foot, you’ll work on the backend server and data storage infrastructure for our up and coming title, Dreadnought as well as future, unannounced titles. You will collaborate with the Six Foot team and external developers to drive projects from inception to live, and are always looking to improve the experience for the team and for players. You adhere to agile software development best practices and constantly looking for ways to evolve, streamline, and automate processes. When required, you can distill complex issues for a wider audience. The successful candidate is highly creative, motivated, collaborative, player-focused, and has a passion for all things gaming.

* Co-develop the game server and data storage infrastructure for current and future games * Work with game developers to enhance game security * Collaborate with internal/external studios to enhance the features of our online services * Write clear, maintainable and fast code * Write and maintain technical design and software system documentation * Strive for a fully automated, self-healing production environment * Make recommendations on improving product quality as well as group productivity * Communicate emergent issues to our Technical, Platform, and Production teams * Identify and develop tools, processes, and workflows that empower us to run a scalable, stable service that can absorb continual change with minimal disruption to players * Assist in the recruiting and mentoring of other engineers to deliver and continually expand a great platform for our players

**Desired Skills and Experience** * Excellent C# and/or C/C++ programming skills * Proficiency in SQL technologies (MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) * Firm understanding of large-scale server environments * Experience with developing secure online services * Experience with using JSON and RESTful web services * Experience with managed/scripting languages (Python, Lua) * You are comfortable working in a Windows development environment (Visual Studio, P4) but are no stranger to Linux **Bonus Skills and Experience** * 3-5 years of applicable experience with one or more shipped game titles as Game, Server, or Network Programmer * Good knowledge of contemporary competitive and cooperative multiplayer gaming * Proficiency in no-SQL technologies (MongoDB, Redshift, Hadoop, Cassandra) * Cloud infrastructure, especially AWS * Unreal Engine server experience (Windows or Linux) * Unity multiplayer experience or other online game platforms