Multiplayer Systems 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 Multiplayer Systems Programmer , you will…

• Work with other programmers to architect and refine multiplayer game systems
• Work with designers, artists and other personnel involved in the development of products as required
• Develop and author all phases of technical design specifications and complete implementation
• Write clear, maintainable, portable code
• Test and refine code and systems throughout the development cycle of the project
• Accurately estimate your schedules and delivers high quality work products to that schedule

Qualifications

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

• You possess 3+ years of professional software development experience writing client/server applications in C++
• You have expertise in building multithreaded, multi-process, real-time systems
• You are skilled in client/server message passing architectures
• You have experience tuning real-time systems for performance and reliability
• You have excellent analytical and mathematical skills
• You have strong interpersonal skills and problem-solving ability
• You have experience with the full life cycle of development and release of large-scale products

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

• You have experience with low-level socket programming
• You are experienced with reflection and code generation systems
• You have experience with compression algorithms
• You have expertise in Unix/Linux/Win32 operating systems
• You have experience with the persistence of distributed systems
• You have game industry experience

Salary Range

Multiplayer Systems Programmer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $80,000 - $175,000 per year.

ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.

This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

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.