Senior Server Programmer

Come join Bethesda Game Studios , the award-winning development team behind Starfield , The Elder Scrolls and Fallout . Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations : Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As  Senior Server Programmer , you will…

• Implement, guide, and review client / server / engine tech for Fallout 76
• Easily dive in and become familiar with the game systems in our client / server engine
• Monitor, fix, and improve the performance and stability of the game
• Work closely with the game team to add system / engine level tech to support new game features
• Own memory management, network, persistence, asynchronous systems, and state management systems in Fallout 76
• Drive client server communications, synchronization systems, client / server validation, and security
• Develop and maintain foundational level engine tech that gameplay systems rely on
• Solve difficult bugs, problems, architectural dilemmas, or optimization issues
• Code review and mentor more junior team members
• Manage your time effectively with little to no guidance and prioritize work based on ROI and risk

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Preferred Skills

What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Expert computer science fundamentals including design patterns, algorithms and algorithmic complexity, memory management, state / object management, compilation, execution, and asynchronous processing and how all these apply to game systems in C++

Expertise in UDP and TCP based synchronization systems

Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and how to work within a cloud-based environment

Database knowledge of basics for different database types (MySQL and variants and Mongo and variants) to the degree you can optimize and tune from the developer perspective

Ability to diagnose performance and connectivity Linux and Windows related issues

Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City

Bonus Skills

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.