Senior Unreal Engineer - Linux Cloud-Streaming Port

Amber Studio; México; Remote; MXN 1,004,000 - 1,674,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Contract project

Job summary

Amber Studio is seeking a Senior Unreal Engineer to port a high-quality AA Unreal Engine 5 game to a Linux-based cloud streaming platform. You will work in a large, existing codebase, focusing on platform SDK integration, input, saves, and telemetry, while keeping performance within strict budgets.

This remote contract runs 5–7 months, with preferred working hours 8am–5pm US Central Time and close collaboration with cross-functional teams across engineering, art, UX, QA and production.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional game development experience on large/complex productions.
• At least 4 years of hands-on Unreal Engine C++ development with modern C++.
• Strong knowledge of Unreal Engine architecture, modules, plugins, rendering, and save systems.
• Experience debugging and extending a large, existing codebase.
• Strong Unreal Insights experience: CPU timing, memory profiling, load-time optimization.
• Experience integrating platform SDKs into Unreal Engine.
• Clear, maintainable production code written behind interfaces.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Adapt and stabilize the game for Linux on a cloud streaming runtime.
• Integrate platform SDK functionality: input, profiles, saves, telemetry, lifecycle events.
• Build cloud-streamed input end-to-end and manage latency across the pipeline.
• Profile and optimize CPU, GPU, memory, loading and frame-time behavior with engineers and artists.
• Support cloud-native save, profile, progression, and session-resume workflows.
• Diagnose threading, IPC, and frame-pacing issues in a large codebase.
• Build automated tests and diagnostic tooling using Unreal Automation Framework and Gauntlet.
• Identify and communicate technical risks to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Skills

Unreal Engine C++

Unreal Insights

SDK integration

Linux debugging

Performance profiling

English (spoken & written)

Large codebase

Tools

Perforce

Job description

Amber Studio is seeking a Senior Unreal Engineer to port a high-quality AA Unreal Engine 5 game to a Linux-based cloud streaming platform. You will work in a large, existing codebase, focusing on platform SDK integration, input, saves, and telemetry, while keeping performance within strict budgets.

This remote contract runs 5–7 months, with preferred working hours 8am–5pm US Central Time and close collaboration with cross-functional teams across engineering, art, UX, QA and production.