Senior / Principal Network Engineer

As a Senior/Principle Network Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the online server infrastructure for The Molasses Flood's next major title. We are seeking a seasoned professional who can bring extensive experience in network engineering to enhance the multiplayer aspects of our game. Your contributions will directly play a critical role in providing our players the best gameplay experiences.This is a full-time salaried position, reporting to the Technical Director. This job could be performed either working a hybrid model out of our office in the greater Boston area, or remote within the US or Canada. All staff work a schedule aligned to US eastern time, regardless of US location. Benefits and salary vary based on country. Responsibilities:Work with gameplay programmers and designers to help ensure that all game features are functional and optimized for the best player experience on clients and servers.  Proactively identify, implement, and support new network features in the game and engine, such as replication systems, client and server replays, and novel features to be shared across projects.Help guide and establish network programming patterns for other developers to follow.Maintain and support listen and dedicated servers on multiple platforms, including Linux and Windows.  Optimize dedicated and listen server usage for bandwidth, latency and overall network usage as well as ensuring optimal cpu and memory usage. Work closely with infrastructure teams across The Molasses Flood and CD Projekt Red to drive the implementation and feedback for matchmaking, server orchestration, containerization, and session scalability.