Live Backend Server Multiplayer - PlayFab 2.0 Azure LiveOps

Since 2014, Alice & Smith has established itself as a global leader, combining immersion, technologies and creativity as never seen before.

Our clients include Microsoft, Twitch, Paradox Interactive, PUBG, NBA, Zynga, Funcom, Square Enix and many others...

• Bring dozen of persistent worlds online for more than 25 million peoples
• Be at ground zero of a new era in creativity and technology
• Scaling to 360 million API calls in 12hrs while watching a code jam of reverse proxy with Cloudflare edge worker
• Work with the top Unreal Engine Artist, Data Scientist, Global Client, and technologies still under NDA
• Play with 12 real-time camera streaming LIDAR and 4k video to 250 000 spectators
• Design edge architecture and server code execution with sub 60 ms latency from 250 cities around the world
  

• Design, develop, and maintain a highly distributed, scalable, low-latency multiplayer environment using high-quality code
• Implement systems that require a thorough understanding of the trade-offs between reliable and unreliable real-time data traffic
• Optimize code and memory for high performance and low latency
• Work closely with industry leaders in PlayFab liveops infrastructure and architecture
• Work closely with our clients and partners at Microsoft and Twitch
• Contribute innovative and original ideas on all aspects of game systems production and development
• Our telemetry and profiling team will help you build advanced real-time reporting and monitoring support tools
• Regularly update directors and stakeholders, collating feedback into tasks with your team

• Expert knowledge of game engine networking protocol, including: replication, node graphs, connections, sessions, and game-state serialization
• Experience in real-time networking, including: compensation for variable order and timing in data (interpolation/extrapolation, fast route optimizations)
• 2+ Years of commercial multiplayer gameplay system design in Azure Cloud
• 2+ Years of C# and .Net application development
• Strong knowledge of Azure Function, REST interfaces and microservice architecture
• Expertise in messaging protocol (AMQP / MQTT)
• Experience in Azure Service Bus or Events Hub
• Deep passion for Azure serverless architecutre and Cloudflare Worker Edge Computing

• PlayFab Multiplayer Server and PlayFab Expertise
• XR Server for PlayFab and XR Server large-scale operations
• XR Analytics, XR Streaming Services, and XR Realtime Services
• Experience with SignalR and Message Hub
• Modern development practices: TDD, integration testing, automated testing
• Technical writing experience
• Experience working in Unreal Engine and Unity