Senior Network Programmer
Rockstar Games
Overview
As a Senior Network Programmer, you will help deliver smooth, reliable multiplayer experiences by optimizing data transfer, predicting and interpolating game state, and handling high latency and packet loss. You’ll work on cross-platform networking systems within a collaborative studio environment in Leeds, contributing from low‑level data handling to high‑level gameplay synchronization. Your work supports large-scale, shared experiences across titles, shaping how players connect and compete. This role offers meaningful impact in a creative, inclusive team focused on delivering world-class entertainment.
Responsibilities- Develop, maintain and extend networking systems across gaming platforms
- Synchronize game entities and gameplay state efficiently for home internet conditions
- Optimize systems to reduce CPU, memory, and bandwidth usage
- Enhance prediction and interpolation to improve motion under latency/packet loss
- Use time productively to meet targets
- 5+ years of commercial games programming experience
- Experience on one or more shipped titles, ideally through submission and release
- Strong C/C++ programming skills
- Good communication skills
- Self-motivated
- Good communication
- Self-motivation
- Collaborative mindset
- C/C++ programming
- Networking systems development
- Prediction and interpolation for game state
Reference: WJ-747_30183729