Staff Software Engineer, Niantic

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Minimum of 6+ years of experience building reliable scalable platforms
• Proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Go or C++ with working knowledge of Python, SQL
• Experience building networked and distributed systems
• Experience building concurrent and multi-threaded services
• Lead and deliver solutions with company-wide impact to production environments, and provided tools to monitor, support and mitigate any issues
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
• Involvement in high-level strategic planning that impacts overarching engineering initiatives
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading projects

Desirable

• Niantic’s mission is to use emerging technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. We build products that inspire movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction
• Niantic is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build the server infrastructure that supports projects such as Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom and Ingress. You will lead projects involving real-time indexing, querying and aggregation problems at massive scales of hundreds of millions of events per day. These technical challenges pertain to a single, coherent world-wide instance shared by millions of users
• We seek engineers with strong technical background, great execution, and self-starter mentality. The ideal candidate loves to jump into the unknown, clarify ambiguities, quickly learn from failures, and break down vague ideas into concrete tasks
• Build and design reliable, high-throughput, low latency and scalable server and networking systems that support Niantic’s developers and products
• Build key components of the platform that developers can incorporate to create rich experiences in their games
• Perform load testing, participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems
• Collaborate with other specialists, product managers, and other departments to ensure code meets internal standards
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and coaching to junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration
• Drive code reviews, maintain high coding standards, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes
• Oversee the entire product release cycle, including QA testing, load testing, and the establishment of metrics, monitoring, and alerts
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
• Required in-office 2 days on Wednesday and Thursday