Destiny Engineering Manager - Sandbox Gameplay

Company: Bungie
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

Do you delight in helping engineers grow into experts? Do you love games and the technology that enables the crafting of multiplayer experiences? Do you enjoy collaborating closely with creative talent? Would you like to help Bungie continue to build amazing gameplay?As a Gameplay Engineering Manager at Bungie, you will guide other engineers to extend and improve the Destiny 2 sandbox and help formulate our strategy for extending it in a constantly evolving live-service environment. You will create, prioritize, and organize the backlog of work for the team by balancing customer desires, business goals, and technical needs. Most importantly, you will work with a fun and dedicated team devoted to creating world-class gaming experiences.
RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Guide six Destiny 2 gameplay sandbox engineers
  
• Collaborate with design leads to develop technical solutions that meet their needs
  
• Manage two to four gameplay engineers, providing support, technical mentorship, constructive feedback, and career development coaching
  
• Be a driver, decision-maker, or guide for technical decision-making in the area, as appropriate
  
  REQUIRED SKILLS
  
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  • Experience managing and mentoring high throughput engineers
    
  • Comfortable communicating with reports, customers, and leadership about difficult topics
    
  • Experience designing and building player gameplay features
    
  • Effective communication with fellow engineers to jointly design, write, and review code through team consensus and alignment
    
  • Ability to communicate with customers from both technical and non-technical backgrounds to help them navigate technology and achieve their goals
    
  • Ability to build and maintain production quality C++ code.
    
  • Mathematics background in trigonometry, linear algebra, and calculus
    
    NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS
    
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    • Experience leading (managing, mentoring, or guiding) engineers through planning, developing, and shipping is a huge plus
      
    • Experience with entity-component architectures for implementing gameplay
      
    • Experience working on a live service game
      
    • Experience working on networked gameplay
      
    • Experience working on animation
      

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