Senior Sde - Gameplay Amazon Games jobs at Amazon in Romania, Bucharest

European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC).
Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing the launch of the ESC in 2025, working closely with global AWS teams, and influencing the evolution of AWS services and technology. A typical day in this role involves collaborating with technology leaders, contributing to the enhancement of day-to-day operations, and ensuring improvements in availability, reliability, latency, performance, and efficiency of the ESC. You will be required to occasionally participate in “on-call” rotations to resolve incidents occurring out-of-hours.A day in the lifeEligibility requirement* Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
* Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Germany.
* Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union.
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* Experience in systems engineering, working with hardware, software, networking, operating systems
* Proficient leading the creation, revision, and/or improvement of standard operational procedures (SOPs)
* Proficient driving operational best practices.
* Proficient scripting processes in a language such as Bash, Python, or Ruby
* Proficient troubleshooting and anticipating problems that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of software systems

* Experience working cross-organizationally and leading strategic team efforts requiring work from multiple team members
* Experience actively mentoring junior engineers
* Experience performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code, (such as CDK, CloudFormation, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or similar)

As a Gameplay Engineer at Amazon Games, you will play a crucial role in crafting immersive and innovative gaming experiences. In this position, you'll leverage your extensive programming expertise and game development knowledge to bring creative concepts to life. You'll work at the intersection of technology and design, collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams to create captivating gameplay mechanics and systems. Your responsibilities will span the entire development lifecycle, from prototyping new ideas to optimizing performance across various platforms. You'll be instrumental in developing core gameplay features, implementing sophisticated AI behaviors, and fine-tuning combat systems and player controls. Your work will directly impact the player experience, ensuring smooth and engaging gameplay across different hardware configurations.
Key job responsibilities- Development and implementation of prototypes and AI behaviors
- Creation and optimization of combat systems, player controls, and game physics
- Integration of gameplay systems with backend services and game engines- Ensure smooth gameplay experiences on different hardware configurations
- Writing of performant code, debugging of complex gameplay issues and code reviews
- Mentoring junior developers and providing technical guidance
- Document code and features.

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in C++ and with game engines (Unreal, Unity, or proprietary)

- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Experience in full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who is as excited about games as we are. In this role, you will contribute to a technical mandate on an AAA multiplayer online battle arena game title built on Unreal 5. You will assess the ability of new technologies to deliver and drive innovation, reliability, performance and productivity gains. It's an opportunity to work on the latest technologies and build a truly the next generation experience for our players.Key job responsibilities
• Own optimization challenges with a moderate scope on the project, both on CPU and GPU.
• Prioritize optimization challenges with leadership.
• Analyze game performance using various systems and tools, identifying and reporting areas of concern.
• Conduct root cause analysis for performance issues, proposing effective mitigation strategies and solutions.
• Assist game code and content developers in debugging and optimizing performance bottlenecks found during testing.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing, tooling or workflows for better triaging, reporting, and analysis of performance issues.

- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Experience with Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc)
- Non-internship professional software development experience
- Non-internship experience in design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Proficiency in managing large codebases and multi-product development.
- Expertise in concurrency, memory, and performance optimization.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilitiesContribute to overall test strategy, analyze game scope and features, drive and deliver test plans creation with value based test cases on assigned areasEnsure complete testing coverage, reporting all quality defects on assigned game areas with high accuracy and efficiency
Contribute to qualitative analysis on game state based on tests results and defects identified over time
Contribute to internal status reports, highlight defect patterns and provide test priorities or test case recommendations to QA partnersOffer qualitative feedback & recommendations that can improve the game quality, from a player perspective

- Experience in QA, in the Games industry, with evidenced Triple A HD titles testing.
- Experience testing across a variety of platforms (PC and consoles)
- Knowledge of QA test practices for the full development life cycle, including test plans & test cases creation, defect reporting standards, defect life cycle and defect analysis against client and market expectations

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who is as excited about games as we are. In this role, you will contribute to a technical mandate on an AAA multiplayer online battle arena game title built on Unreal 5. You will assess the ability of new technologies to deliver and drive innovation, reliability, performance and productivity gains. It's an opportunity to work on the latest technologies and build a truly the next generation experience for our players.Key job responsibilities
• Own optimization challenges with a moderate scope on the project, both on CPU and GPU.
• Prioritize optimization challenges with leadership.
• Analyze game performance using various systems and tools, identifying and reporting areas of concern.
• Conduct root cause analysis for performance issues, proposing effective mitigation strategies and solutions.
• Assist game code and content developers in debugging and optimizing performance bottlenecks found during testing.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing, tooling or workflows for better triaging, reporting, and analysis of performance issues.

- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Experience with Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc)
- Non-internship professional software development experience
- Non-internship experience in design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems

- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Proficiency in managing large codebases and multi-product development.
- Expertise in concurrency, memory, and performance optimization.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer who is as excited about games as we are. In this role, you will contribute to a technical mandate on an AAA multiplayer online battle arena game title built on Unreal 5. You will assess the ability of new technologies to deliver and drive innovation, reliability, performance and productivity gains. It's an opportunity to work on the latest technologies and build a truly the next generation experience for our playersKey job responsibilities
- Own optimization challenges with a moderate scope on the project, both on CPU and GPU.
- Prioritize optimization challenges with leadership.
- Analyze game performance using various systems and tools, identifying and reporting areas of concern.
- Conduct root cause analysis for performance issues, proposing effective mitigation strategies and solutions.
- Assist game code and content developers in debugging and optimizing performance bottlenecks found during testing.
- Identify opportunities to improve testing, tooling or workflows for better triaging, reporting, and analysis of performance issues.

- Non-internship professional software development experience
- Non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience in C++ and with game engines (Unreal, Unity, or proprietary)

- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Experience in full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

We are looking for a Senior Engine Programmer who is as excited about games as we are. In this role, you will contribute to a technical mandate on a AAA multiplayer online battle arena game title built on Unreal 5. You will assess the ability of new technologies to deliver and drive innovation, reliability, performance and productivity gains. It's an opportunity to work on the latest technologies and build a truly next generation experience for our players.Key job responsibilities
- Work on a competitive game experience, with strong focus on performance, reactivity and accuracy.
- Work on low-level CPU optimization on a wide range of PC hardware
- Design and implement new engine runtime features for our game
- Design and implement APIs and supporting tools as required by the project's demands
- Optimize both memory and performance in our systems
- Analyze and fix common problems in a game engine, such as load times, memory usage, and performance problems
- Contribute to the broader design and implementation of technologies in the game

- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Experience with Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc)
- Significant experience in C++

- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience with Unreal engine
- Experience profiling and optimizing in one or more areas of game development
- Experience implementing and debugging large, robust systems on game or game engine technology