Software Engineer - Game Recording
Medal
Medal is the world’s largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and relive their best moments. Every year, our players record billions of clips, each representing a unique, action-packed highlight. We’re building the next generation of gaming communities — social, monetized, and creator-powered. Our mission is to design products that make sharing, discovering, and connecting around gaming moments seamless and fun.
We raised a seed round of $133M from General Catalyst and Khosla to discover the next generation of intelligence.
The Role
We're seeking a Game Recorder Engineer to help build our state-of-the-art recorder. For this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of a performant game recorder. You will also be contributing to many of our features that require interfacing with game engines and game-specific APIs, such as auto clipping.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement performant game recording systems that capture gameplay efficiently
Optimize performance-critical code for high-throughput data capture
Interface with game engines and APIs to extract relevant game-specific data
Investigate various low-level bugs involving input devices, hooking, and more
Qualifications
3+ years of experience writing scalable and complex software, coding in languages including, but not limited to, C/C++, C#
Hands-on experience debugging crashes through memory dumps
Strong understanding of low-level, performance-critical engineering and code profiling
Deep knowledge of the graphics stack – from hooking into game engines (Unity, Unreal, etc. and graphics APIs all the way down to hardware devices
Experience with reverse-engineering and working with (and even around) anti-cheats
In-person: Looking to hire in NYC to contribute alongside the product team. 3+ days in the office
Bonus: Experience working with large-scale video data
Benefits
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Comprehensive health insurance including dental and vision insurance
401k
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