Senior Game Tools Engineer (or Tools Lead) at Amazon in Austin, TX

DESCRIPTION

Come join us and help in building a new premium multiplayer title from Amazon Game Studios!
Build the tools to enable content creators to focus on making the game compelling and fun for the huge customer base of Amazon!

Amazon builds games! Our mission is to be the most customer-obsessed company in the games industry. At Amazon Game Studios, we’re creating games like the open world MMO New World as well as unannounced titles for PC, console and mobile platforms. Amazon Games delivers great game benefits to Prime members each month via Prime Gaming, and provides game developers of all sizes with the tools they need to succeed with Amazon Game Tech.

Our product is an unannounced game on the Unreal Engine built by a team with veterans from many popular titles like EverQuest, PlanetSide, H1Z1, and Free Realms.
Come join our passionate team in San Diego or in one of our AGS hubs in Seattle, Montreal, Irvine and Austin to help make the next game everyone will be downloading to their PCs, phones, tablets and consoles!

Remote workers will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

**Key Job Responsibilities

Who You Are
· We’re looking for a candidate that loves playing games and building tools to help content creators to rapidly and easily make fun and engaging experiences that are accessible to all customers!
· You thrive in a collaborative environment where you have influence over technology direction.
· You are passionate about building tools to help developers improve their daily workflows.
· You want to be part of something exciting and unique in the gaming ecosystem.

What You'll Do:
· Design, develop and support content creation tools using C++, python, C# to support
Unreal Engine workflows.

· Give technical guidance to a team of other developers to build high quality tools.
· Ensure that the game and tools are tightly integrated into multiple hardware platforms and ecosystems--making sure that game assets conform to each platform's strengths and limitations.
· Monitor, measure, and improve developer iteration time.
· Proactively identify and solve problems that affect the quality of life for developers.
· Be an advocate for players and developers: Insist on the highest standards, drive to operational excellence, help create functional and engaging customer-centric features.**

About the Team
Amazon Games applies the principles of Amazonian culture to the world of game design. We have a diverse team of talented, creative people pairing their love of making games with the unique strengths that come with being part of Amazon. Across all of our teams and locations, we are united by a common purpose: to share great gaming experiences with customers around the world. We believe in a future where everyone is a gamer and everyone can create, compete, collaborate and connect through games, and we are looking for the right people to help us build that future. With the power of Twitch and AWS at your fingertips, you will have the chance to innovate in gameplay, creativity, marketing, and technology, while working alongside some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.

Inclusive Culture, Work/Life Harmony & Career Growth
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have employee-led affinity groups with hundreds of global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life harmony and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right relationship between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, working on multi-discipline teams.
· Experience with tool development for workflow improvement and content creation for games.
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Experience using Unreal Engine
· 5+ years of game development experience.
· At least two shipped game titles (or equivalent) on which you were a primary contributor to major tools and workflow architecture and implementation.
· Experience with gameplay systems for which you've built content generation tools for.
· You enjoy playing games and thinking about what makes them fun.