Senior Engine Programmer — Multi-Game Data Systems

Rushdown-Studios; City of Saratoga Springs (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: 100k-150k

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Video game budget

401(k)

Job summary

Rushdown Studios in Saratoga Springs, NY is seeking a Senior Engine Programmer to design, optimize, and maintain core engine technologies for multiple games.

You will work across data formats, serialization, and tooling, with strong C++ skills and multithreading. Local candidates are preferred with a hybrid Tue-Thu office schedule; remote US East is welcome for the right fit.

Competitive compensation includes $100,000-$150,000/year, plus holidays, PTO, a video game budget, and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional C++ experience in game engine work.
• Experience shipping commercial games and writing portable, maintainable code.
• Experience designing or maintaining binary formats, serialization, or data pipelines.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory, concurrency.
• Experience profiling and optimizing CPU, memory, I/O; multithreaded programming.
• Willingness to put player experience first; proactive communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the engine's data systems using modern C++ and archive formats.
• Build next-gen data formats with versioning, merging, and fast runtime loading.
• Develop tools to migrate content to new formats without data loss.
• Make data builds deterministic and cacheable for reproducible outputs.
• Profile and optimize loading and streaming on PC and consoles.
• Write clean, intuitive code that is easy to extend by others.
• Collaborate with tools, editor, build, designers and gameplay programmers.
• Solve crashes and performance bottlenecks across platforms.

Skills

C++

Game engine development

Binary file formats

Serialization systems

Multithreaded programming

Performance profiling

Team collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine

Python

Lua

Job description

Rushdown Studios in Saratoga Springs, NY is seeking a Senior Engine Programmer to design, optimize, and maintain core engine technologies for multiple games.

You will work across data formats, serialization, and tooling, with strong C++ skills and multithreading. Local candidates are preferred with a hybrid Tue-Thu office schedule; remote US East is welcome for the right fit.

Competitive compensation includes $100,000-$150,000/year, plus holidays, PTO, a video game budget, and a 401(k) plan.