We all have that one game that holds a special place in our hearts - the kind that defined a chapter in our lives and hosted some of our most exhilarating moments with friends.

It’s where we found our own little corner within the larger community, a spot where we felt truly seen and let our inner flame shine. That's what we're here to create at Bonfire.

We craft games
that weave pulse-
pounding thrill
with the warmth
of belonging

We’re building
a game we’re
excited *to* play
every day

*A* TEAM-BASED PVP GAME
*WHERE* COMBAT CREATIVITY
EMPOWERS *YOUR* ASCENSION

Heroes *are* dead
Their echoes
*are* eternal

Be among *the*
first *to* play

We’re looking for talented craftspeople who dare to dream big, build with passion, and thrive on collaboration.

Our team
is growing

*Be* a part *of*
our
journey

Ignite *your*
superpower

Who
we are

More *about*
bonfire

At Bonfire, our mission is to tap into our shared passions to craft games we love and create communities where everyone has their unique place to shine.

Bonfire Studios

Do you live and breathe video games? Are you an expert in visual storytelling with a talent for creating trailers that capture gamers' attention and leave them wanting more? If so, we need your skills!

We're searching for a skilled Senior Video Editor to join our team and create captivating trailers and promotional videos that showcase the excitement and innovation of our game. This is a temporary role based in Orange County with an estimated duration of 6 months (with the possibility to extend up to 12 months), offering a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and passionate team.


<div>Do you live and breathe video games? Are you an expert in visual storytelling with a talent for creating trailers that capture gamers' attention and leave them wanting more? If so, we need your skills!</div><div><br /></div><div>We're searching for a skilled Senior Video Editor to join our team and create captivating trailers and promotional videos that showcase the excitement and innovation of our game. This is a temporary role based in Orange County with an estimated duration of 6 months (with the possibility to extend up to 12 months), offering a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a dynamic and passionate team.</div>

<li>A killer portfolio demonstrating your expertise in crafting compelling gameplay trailers and promotional content</li><li>Mastery of industry-standard video editing software (e.g., Adobe Premiere, After Effects)</li><li>Deep understanding of the video game trailer pipeline, from concept, to capture, to final cut</li><li>Ability to blend live-action footage, gameplay capture, and motion graphics seamlessly</li><li>Top-notch organizational skills and a knack for meeting deadlines</li><li>Excellent communication skills and a collaborative spirit</li><li>Passion for gaming and a finger on the pulse of industry trends</li><li>Bonus skills: experience with motion graphics and sound design</li>

<li>Collaborate with the Creative Director and development teams to translate creative vision and marketing goals into captivating video content.</li><li>Edit various video assets, including in-game footage, trailers, and promotional materials.</li><li>Utilize development builds and game engines to compose creative gameplay sequences.</li><li>Capture high-quality gameplay footage and screenshots using in-game tools and external hardware/software for multiple promotional platforms.</li><li>Edit and refine captured footage to highlight key features, ensuring it meets aesthetic and technical standards.</li><li>Lead and participate in group capture sessions.</li><li>Craft engaging narratives using a mix of live-action footage, gameplay capture, and motion graphics that resonate with a diverse audience.</li><li>Organize and manage video projects to ensure efficient workflow and timely delivery.</li><li>Stay current with industry trends and editing techniques to continuously improve content quality.</li><li>Coordinate cinematic gameplay shots that align with in-game cinematics, working closely with the directorial team.</li>

Game Capture Artist / Video Editor (Contract)

Bonfire is looking for a Senior Animator to bring characters to life and create impactful gameplay experiences through exciting combat and expressive motion. Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As a senior animator on a small, focused team, you will have the opportunity to help shape our new IP and create amazing experiences for our players.


<div>Bonfire is looking for a Senior Animator to bring characters to life and create impactful gameplay experiences through exciting combat and expressive motion. Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As a senior animator on a small, focused team, you will have the opportunity to help shape our new IP and create amazing experiences for our players.</div>

<li>You’ll collaborate with a lean team of skilled and passionate game developers.</li><li>You will have the opportunity to participate in focused, cross disciplinary teams to jam on character development, creating combat that feels amazing, as well as other features and team goals.</li><li>You’ll have the opportunity to meld minds with engineers and tech artists to develop custom rigs, tools and animation technology to improve our workflows, streamline development and create high quality motion for the game.</li><li>You’ll collaborate closely with the animation team and other developers to align on animation look/feel, quality bar, process/efficiency, tech, etc.</li><li>You’ll join playtests, learning what is best for the game through experiencing the game as a player and adjusting your animations for the best gameplay experience.</li><li>You'll wear many hats, have ample opportunity to utilize your prior experience and also be supported in experimenting with new areas of interest to you.</li><li>Your ultimate impact on the studio will be unbounded; we lean on each other's passions and embrace one another's unique perspectives on game development to help us all grow as a team together. You will have many opportunities to contribute to areas of the game and the company outside your core focus.</li>

<li>Have proven experience creating high quality, in-game animations, ideally on multiple shipped titles. </li><li>Are excited by the competitive multiplayer combat space and understand the importance animation plays there.</li><li>Have a keen understanding of combat systems and exceptional skill in crafting satisfying, impactful assets to drive those systems.</li><li>Have experience developing animation systems in new engines.</li><li>Feel comfortable taking ownership of features and seeing them though to the end.</li><li>Are highly self motivated and good at understanding and focusing on the biggest needs for the game. </li><li>Are highly skilled at animation and are able to convey character through gameplay animations.</li><li>Push for animation fidelity, but are always ready to put gameplay quality first.</li><li>Believe, as we do, that great games are the product of great teams that put their people first.</li><li>Want to have a large impact while collaborating with other talented developers in a tight knit AAA studio, rolling up your sleeves and using your passions and interests to shape your role at the company</li><li>Thrive on collaboration and communicate well with developers of all disciplines.</li><li>Are open, humble, eager, and excited about learning and contributing in multiple areas of the studio. Your curiosity propels you to jump in and dive deep on new problems.</li><li>Value building trust with the people you work with.</li><li>Value working with a diverse team and welcome different perspectives.</li><li>Have a growth mindset and also care about helping others develop.</li><li>Are as passionate about the creative process and developing games as we are!</li>

<li>Have strong values that include transparency, ownership, and trust. We are a people-first studio that also strives for a high bar of excellence in our creations.</li><li>Celebrate craft expertise because we are a small, tight-knit group of highly experienced game developers who are as passionate about our team as we are our game.</li><li>Offer opportunities to learn and contribute beyond your focused discipline in areas of interest or passion.</li><li>Practice candor and feedback, leveling ourselves and each other up in the process.</li><li>Play games and have fun together, kindling our own love for games and learning about each other.</li>

You’ll love working at Bonfire because we…

Bonfire Studios is seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Technical Sound Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you will play a vital role in shaping our future by defining and streamlining audio workflows, creating custom tools, and collaborating closely with various disciplines to bring our games to life through sound. This position offers flexibility to tailor your contributions based on your expertise, allowing you to focus on both the audio experience and pipeline.


<div>Bonfire Studios is seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Technical Sound Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you will play a vital role in shaping our future by defining and streamlining audio workflows, creating custom tools, and collaborating closely with various disciplines to bring our games to life through sound. This position offers flexibility to tailor your contributions based on your expertise, allowing you to focus on both the audio experience and pipeline.</div>

<li>Develop and maintain tools and pipelines in Wwise and Unity to optimize audio workflows, asset creation, and help support the audio vision.</li><li>Proactively identify and implement solutions to empower sound designers through technology and process improvements.</li><li>Help manage Wwise project organization, dynamic mix systems, and optimizations.</li><li>Partner with other team members across the studio to help define and implement efficient interdisciplinary workflows.</li>

<li>You have 4+ years of experience as a technical sound designer in games (or equivalent role)</li><li>You have experience developing and evolving game audio pipelines and tools.</li><li>You demonstrate strong technical skills, including experience with scripting languages like Python.</li><li>You have deep knowledge of Wwise systems and integrations.</li><li>You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working with diverse teams.</li><li>You hold a strong passion for games and the creative process.</li><li>You embrace a growth mindset and are eager to learn and contribute.</li><li>You have proven experience creating flexible audio workflows that can be iterated on in live service environments.</li>

Why you'll love working at Bonfire Studios:

Technical Sound Designer (Senior/Principal)

Bonfire Studios is looking for a Principal/Senior Gameplay Engineer to partner closely with our development team to both drive and build gameplay features & tools for our first game. We are seeking those who are tinkerers at heart! you will jam on gameplay ideas with designers while breaking down technical boundaries in pursuit of discovering new ways to make the game more fun.

Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As an engineer on our team, you will have the opportunity to shape the game & technology that powers our first title and create an amazing experience for our players.


<div>Bonfire Studios is looking for a Principal/Senior Gameplay Engineer to partner closely with our development team to both drive and build gameplay features &amp; tools for our first game. We are seeking those who are tinkerers at heart! you will jam on gameplay ideas with designers while breaking down technical boundaries in pursuit of discovering new ways to make the game more fun.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As an engineer on our team, you will have the opportunity to shape the game &amp; technology that powers our first title and create an amazing experience for our players.</div>

<li>Your main focus will be working closely with designers, animators, visual effects artists, and audio designers to continually refine &amp; evolve gameplay to delight players.</li><li>We believe that in-person collaboration is essential to making legendary games. Much of our engineering team is hybrid across the west coast, and we are looking for someone who is excited about collaborating closely in person at our studio in Orange County or comfortable traveling regularly.</li><li>You will develop game technology and tools built in Unity using DOTS via C#. The projects you work on will be a combination of direct feature implementation in ECS and tool development to empower rapid iteration time from creators.</li><li>Projects may include things like optimizing bandwidth on a predicted client to give a better view of the server world for a player, building tools for designers so they can intuitively iterate on character mechanics, implementing animation features to bring characters to life, iterating on camera and controls to ensure the most responsive experience, or creating new game modes that mixup the game.</li><li>We love people who are passionate about multiple areas so you will probably also spend time in other areas such as audio, UI, gameplay systems, optimizations.</li><li>Your ultimate impact on the studio will be unbounded; we lean on each other's passions and embrace one another's unique perspectives on game development to help us all grow as a team together. You will have many opportunities to contribute to areas of the game and the company outside your core focus.</li>

<li>Believe, as we do, that great games are the product of great teams that put their people first.</li><li>Have experience working on custom/heavily modified engines for AAA games across PC and modern consoles with multiple shipped titles.</li><li>Deeply believe that improving iteration time allows designers and content creators to achieve quality.</li><li>Have experience and a passion for driving initiatives and alignment across engineering, art and design using skills such as strong communication, context sharing, and mentorship.</li><li>Deeply understand multi-threaded architecture and asynchronous programming paradigms.</li><li>Have experience with ECS paradigms in game engines, and/or are excited about digging deeply into ECS paradigms in game engines.</li><li>Have been a part of building technologies that allow developers to efficiently deliver live service content to players.</li><li>Have deep expertise in one or more of Networking, Animation, Character Physics, Controls, AI.</li><li>Value working with a diverse team and welcome different perspectives.</li><li>Are open, humble, eager, and excited about learning and contributing in multiple areas of the studio. Your curiosity propels you to jump in and dive deep on new problems.</li><li>Want to have a large impact while collaborating with other talented developers in a tight knit AAA studio, rolling up your sleeves and using your passions and interests to shape your role at the company.</li><li>Enjoy jumping deep into an area that you aren't familiar with and figure it out. Value the skill of understanding unfamiliar code.</li><li>Value building trust with the people you work with. Collaborating is your preferred method of working with other engineers and developers.</li><li>Have a growth mindset and also care about helping others develop.</li><li>Are as passionate about the creative process and developing games as we are!</li>

You'll love working at Bonfire because we...

Gameplay Software Engineer (Principal/Senior)

Are you naturally curious and a tinkerer at heart? Do you enjoy pushing the capabilities of technology? If those sound like you, keep reading - because Bonfire’s engineering team is growing!

Bonfire is looking for a Senior/Principal/Lead Systems Engineer to help build systems & tools specifically around optimizations & netcode to empower our team on our first game. Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As an Engineer on our team, you will have the opportunity to shape the technology that powers our first title and create an amazing experience for our players.


<div>Are you naturally curious and a tinkerer at heart? Do you enjoy pushing the capabilities of technology? If those sound like you, keep reading - because Bonfire’s engineering team is growing!</div><div><br /></div><div>Bonfire is looking for a Senior/Principal/Lead Systems Engineer to help build systems &amp; tools specifically around optimizations &amp; netcode to empower our team on our first game. Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As an Engineer on our team, you will have the opportunity to shape the technology that powers our first title and create an amazing experience for our players.</div>

<li>Your main focus will be working on the engine and foundational systems that our game technology and tools are built in Unity using DOTS via C# and C/C++. The projects you work on will mostly be focused around making the foundational systems at the engine level underneath the game and tools function more efficiently and smoothly for the team and for players.</li><li>In a Lead/Principal role, you will have an opportunity to collaborate more closely with other leads (both internal and external to the studio) to advance the engine.</li><li>Projects may include things like optimizing the pipeline to allow a developer to iterate on a feature in milliseconds instead of seconds, building the foundation that other engineers use to create maintainable, easy-to-use, live-editable profiling systems, and optimizing runtime systems such as rendering, streaming, and netcode.</li><li>We love people who are passionate about multiple areas so you will probably also spend time in other areas; you might help with audio, gameplay systems, audio tools, UI systems, platforms.</li><li>Your ultimate impact on the studio will be unbounded; we lean on each other's passions and embrace one another's unique perspectives on game development to help us all grow as a team together. You will have many opportunities to contribute to areas of the game and the company outside your core focus.</li>

<li>Believe, as we do, that great games are the product of great teams that put their people first.</li><li>Have experience working on custom/heavily modified engines for AAA games across PC and modern consoles with multiple shipped titles.</li><li>Have been a part of building technologies that allow developers to efficiently deliver live service content to players.</li><li>Deeply understand multi-threaded architecture and asynchronous programming paradigms.</li><li>Find it fun to debug and discover root causes for hard to reproduce issues like memory corruption.</li><li>Have experience with ECS paradigms in game engines, and/or are excited about digging deeply into ECS paradigms in game engines.</li><li>Are open, humble, eager, and excited about learning and contributing in multiple areas of the studio. Your curiosity propels you to jump in and dive deep on new problems.</li><li>Enjoy working on projects that make the entire engineering team more efficient. You are able to put yourself in the shoes of a user and make beautiful, easy-to-use APIs.</li><li>Are comfortable writing a memory allocator on Monday, a tool that automates a laborious process on Tuesday, helping out the gameplay engineers with the new Quest system on Wednesday, tracking down a difficult bug in the A* algorithm on Thursday, and doing some low-level optimizations on Friday.</li><li>Want to have a large impact while collaborating with other talented developers in a tight knit AAA studio, rolling up your sleeves and using your passions and interests to shape your role at the company.</li><li>Enjoy jumping deep into an area that you aren't familiar with and figure it out. Value the skill of understanding unfamiliar code.</li><li>Value building trust with the people you work with. Collaborating is your preferred method of working with other engineers and developers.</li><li>Value working with a diverse team and welcome different perspectives.</li><li>Have a growth mindset and also care about helping others develop.</li><li>Are as passionate about the creative process and developing games as we are!</li>

Do you know what happens when a million people show up at your door? Are log files streaming through your consciousness when you’re sleeping? You may be just the person we’re looking for to join us on our first multiplayer title.

Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As a Server Software Engineer you will impact the technology that powers our first title and create an amazing experience for our players.


<div>Do you know what happens when a million people show up at your door? Are log files streaming through your consciousness when you’re sleeping? You may be just the person we’re looking for to join us on our first multiplayer title.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and the tasks we work on each day. As a Server Software Engineer you will impact the technology that powers our first title and create an amazing experience for our players.</div>

<li>We’re building our infrastructure so that it can be</li><div>				Functional - providing an amazing player experience is paramount</div><div>				Reliable - we want to build things in a way that avoids any downtime</div><div>				Scalable - so that we’re ready for any number of players who show up</div><div>				Maintainable - we’re operating and maintaining the services that we write</div><div>				Available - it’s important that all of the functionality is available on a variety of platforms</div><div><br /></div><li>Our team is highly collaborative, we design and review things together.</li><li>Our infrastructure is built in Golang, placed in Docker containers and run by Kubernetes.</li><li>We partner closely with the rest of the development team who’s building our game client and server in C#</li><li>We make use CI/CD where ever possible to automate deployment and testing of our services</li><li>In addition to using off the shelf observability and monitoring, we build tooling to help us operate our services using HTML/TS/Bootstrap/D3.js</li><li>Our services are as stateless as possible towards our goals of being reliable and scalable, but when we do persist state, we make use of Memorystore (Redis Cluster) and Firestore.</li><li>Experience in these technologies is great, an aptitude for picking up new technologies is even better.</li><div><br /></div>

<li>Have at least 5 years experience working as a software engineer with a focus on server side development, though you will likely have more.</li><li>Are going to contribute to the design and implementation of features for our first game.</li><li>Enjoy working on projects that make the entire development team more efficient.</li><li>Have an entrepreneurial spirit and passionately self-start and self-direct projects.</li><li>Love pitching in other areas.</li><li>Are excited to passionately self-start and self-direct your projects.</li>

<li>Are a small, tight-knit group of game developers who are as passionate about our team as we are our game. (Learn more about our team here!)</li><li>Each engineer has areas of responsibility but we avoid technical silos -- we all support and pitch in across the codebase, and the whole is greater than the sum of our parts. </li><li>Practice candor and feedback, leveling ourselves and each other up in the process.</li><li>Play games and have fun together, kindling our own love for games and learning about each other.</li><div><br /></div>