Staff Software Engineer — Real-Time Simulation

Linden Lab; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Equity Incentive Plan (EIP)

Job summary

Linden Lab is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our San Francisco in-office team. You’ll shape Second Life’s server and simulation systems, tackle ambiguous technical challenges, and lead cross-cutting initiatives to keep the platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable.

You’ll mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to elevate the health of long-lived systems in a highly collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of professional software engineering experience, including real-time or game/server systems.
• Experience designing and operating reliable services across multiple codebases and domains.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and ability to influence technical decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, design, and implementation for high-impact changes across large C++ codebases.

Skills

8+ years software eng

3+ years real-time systems

C++ codebase expertise

cloud infrastructure

containerized services

Python or shell scripting

production issue diagnosis

mentoring engineers

technical leadership

Tools

C++ toolchains

Cloud infrastructure

Containerized services

Python scripting

Job description

Linden Lab is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our San Francisco in-office team. You’ll shape Second Life’s server and simulation systems, tackle ambiguous technical challenges, and lead cross-cutting initiatives to keep the platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable.

You’ll mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to elevate the health of long-lived systems in a highly collaborative environment.