Sony Computer Entertainment Santa Monica is seeking an online gameplay
programmer to join the team behind the critically acclaimed AAA titles
"God of War" and "God of War II."

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designs, develops and maintains the networking portions of game
  and tools code.
  
• Interact with gameplay programmers to make existing and new code
  support desired network functionality (including networking of
  gameplay state, lobbying, commerce, chat, security, and similar).
  
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional code
  
• Evaluate and integrate 3rd party technology and APIs
  
• Collaborate with game and tools programmers to integrate new
  technologies into game and tools
  
• As needed work on non-networking tasks such as tools and game-
  specific systems to support specific project requirements

• B.Sc. degree in computer science or equivalent experience
  
• Minimum five years programming experience
  
• Expertise in C and C++
  
• Experience implementing networking components for a modern
  game (or equivalent application), and expert understanding of
  how to robustly and efficiently network game state
  
• In-depth understanding of networking protocols (TCP, UDP), client-
  server and peer-to-peer architectures, dealing with bandwidth,
  latency, synchronization, and dropped-packet issues, etc.
  
• Skilled in modern algorithms and data structures
  
• Strong architecture, documentation and design skills
  
• Self-motivated, with excellent communication and problem
  solving skills

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