Staff Gameplay Engineer – Systems and Performance

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $172k - $259k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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teamLFG

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gaming • B2C

teamLFG is a PlayStation Studios-affiliated game development studio based in Bellevue, WA that builds immersive, action-driven social multiplayer games designed to foster friendship, community, and belonging. The team combines industry veterans (with credits on Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, Rec Room) and newer creators working across the U. S. and Canada to deliver highly polished moment-to-moment gameplay and long-term multiplayer engagement.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain production-quality foundational gameplay systems, frameworks, workflows, and tools in C++ on Unreal Engine 5 • Provide technical direction for shared gameplay systems • Collaborate with engineers and content creators to evolve architecture, identify risks, and ensure scalability with the simulation and networking model • Own game performance and optimization by profiling the game, identifying bottlenecks and risks, establishing priorities, and implementing code optimizations • Establish performance practices, metrics, budgets, profiling workflows, and tools • Enable engineers and content creators to understand runtime costs and optimize their systems

🎯 Requirements

• Strong C++ skills and ability to design, implement, debug, profile, and maintain production-quality systems in a large codebase • Demonstrated experience architecting and evolving large-scale gameplay systems, frameworks, or shared gameplay infrastructure • Deep experience profiling and optimizing real-time games, including CPU, memory, networking, and systemic performance bottlenecks • Experience developing with Unreal Engine • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Experience developing and shipping multiplayer games, particularly games with complex gameplay simulation and networking requirements (nice to have) • Experience developing and optimizing games across PC and console platforms (nice to have) • Successful completion of background checks at the offer stage

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Matching 401(k) • Paid time off • Wellness program • Employee discounts for Sony products • May be eligible for a bonus package • Flexible/remote work options