Bonfire Studios is seeking an exceptional Senior/Principal Environment Artist to help craft the immersive world of Arkheron, our latest original IP. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled world builder with a proven track record of creating AAA-quality environment art assets, including architectural kits, materials, vistas, props, and set dressing.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a creative and collaborative artist who has a developer / product first mindset, and deep experience in concept and level design to make a significant impact on our gameplay experience.

Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and our day-to-day work. As an Environment Artist on a small, focused team, you will have the opportunity to help define our new IP and create amazing experiences for our players.


<div><span style="font-size:16px">Bonfire Studios is seeking an exceptional Senior/Principal Environment Artist to help craft the immersive world of Arkheron, our latest original IP. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled world builder with a proven track record of creating AAA-quality environment art assets, including architectural kits, materials, vistas, props, and set dressing.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">This is a fantastic opportunity for a creative and collaborative artist who has a developer / product first mindset, and deep experience in concept and level design to make a significant impact on our gameplay experience.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">Bonfire Studios is a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment where every developer’s voice shapes the company, the game, and our day-to-day work. As an Environment Artist on a small, focused team, you will have the opportunity to help define our new IP and create amazing experiences for our players.</span></div>

<li>You will use your skills in modeling and sculpting, texturing, UV Layout, and material creation to develop high quality 3D environment assets that will help build out our worlds.</li><li>Our expectations are that you are capable of being self-sufficient and taking initiative when needed. While you’ll have the support of a highly collaborative team, we operate as a small, focused group where success often means pushing ideas forward independently and adapting to evolving needs. If you do your best work in large teams with highly specialized roles, this may not be the best fit.</li><li>You will be responsible for creating fully flushed out architectural kits from existing concept/block out to completion.</li><li>You will ensure that environment art assets are of the highest artistic quality and uphold the integrity of the game’s visual aesthetic and work in service of the game’s design.</li><li>You will collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams focused on world building and visual storytelling. You will have the opportunity to conduct research for reference materials and push the overall quality.</li><li>Your ideas and input are welcomed and valued; our team members inspire each other.</li><li>You will collaborate with other disciplines to make sure artwork delivers visual fidelity and gameplay needs.</li><li>You'll wear many hats, have ample opportunity to utilize your prior experience creating worlds, and also be supported in experimenting with new areas of interest to you.</li><li>Contribute beyond your core responsibilities, helping shape the game, studio culture, and creative process.</li>

<li>Believe, as we do, that great games are the product of great teams that put their people first.</li><li>Are self-driven and can operate effectively even if there is ambiguity—you can take an idea from a whiteboard sketch to a finished in-game asset without needing every detail spelled out.</li><li>Ideally have 5+ years of experience as a 3D Environment Artist, with at least one shipped AAA game.</li><li>You have an eye for architecture, material definition, color theory, 2D &amp; 3D design.</li><li>Have proficiency in Maya (or any 3D modeling package), Photoshop, ZBrush and Texture creation/Material editing (Substance Painter/Unreal/Unity).</li><li>Have familiarity with video game development including, but not limited to workflow, tools, lighting, high and low poly modeling, texture painting, PBR material setup, mapping techniques, UV layout, and engine parameters/optimizations.</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>Are proud of the game we’re building! We’re excited to playtest it daily as a team and can’t wait to share it with the world.</li><li>Are dedicated to excellence and love pushing the limits of what we can create together.</li><li>Care about building an environment for people to have meaningful impact and ownership of their work.</li><li>Prioritize building strong, authentic relationships and regularly bring people together through meaningful gatherings.</li><li>Offer opportunities to learn and contribute beyond your focused discipline in areas of interest or passion.</li>

You’ll love working at Bonfire because we…

Bonfire Studios is seeking an exceptional Lead Environment Artist to guide our team in crafting the immersive world of our Arkheron, our latest original IP. The ideal candidate is a proven leader with a deep passion for world-building, a strong artistic vision, and the ability to mentor and inspire a team of talented artists.

In this role, you will be responsible for setting the artistic and technical standards for environment art, driving creative solutions, and ensuring our world is visually stunning and cohesive. This is an opportunity to take ownership, lead by example, and help shape both the game and the team.

Bonfire Studios thrives on collaboration, trust, and shared ownership. As a Lead Environment Artist, you will play a critical role in building a culture of excellence, fostering team growth, and ensuring that our environmental storytelling enhances gameplay and player experience. 


<div><span style="font-size:16px">Bonfire Studios is seeking an exceptional Lead Environment Artist to guide our team in crafting the immersive world of our Arkheron, our latest original IP. The ideal candidate is a proven leader with a deep passion for world-building, a strong artistic vision, and the ability to mentor and inspire a team of talented artists.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">In this role, you will be responsible for setting the artistic and technical standards for environment art, driving creative solutions, and ensuring our world is visually stunning and cohesive. This is an opportunity to take ownership, lead by example, and help shape both the game and the team.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">Bonfire Studios thrives on collaboration, trust, and shared ownership. As a Lead Environment Artist, you will play a critical role in building a culture of excellence, fostering team growth, and ensuring that our environmental storytelling enhances gameplay and player experience. </span></div>

<li><b>Inspire and guide:</b> Lead and mentor a team of environment artists, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment by setting expectations and providing constructive feedback to help artists grow and succeed.</li><li><b>Shape the vision:</b> Drive the creative and technical vision for environment art, ensuring a consistent and high-quality aesthetic.</li><li><b>Craft immersive worlds:</b> Take high-level ideas and undefined concepts - even as rough as a whiteboard sketch - and develop them into fully realized game environments.</li><li><b>Ensure quality and efficiency:</b> Be accountable for the team’s output, delivering polished, immersive worlds that align with gameplay needs.</li><li><b>Collaborate across disciplines:</b> Work closely with design, engineering, and other teams to align art direction with gameplay, technical constraints, and performance goals. Ensure environment art assets meet artistic, technical, and optimization standards for a seamless player experience.</li><li><b>Balance leadership and hands-on creation: </b>You’ll lead a small, focused, highly collaborative team where you’ll push ideas forward independently, without much guidance, while adapting and iterating based on the needs of the game. You’ll set the standard for quality while guiding the team and contributing to asset creation.</li><li><b>Embrace innovation:</b> Research new tools, workflows, and techniques to push the quality bar.</li><li><b>Build the team:</b> Contribute to studio-wide hiring, onboarding, and team-building efforts to cultivate and grow our environment art discipline.</li><li><b>Foster accountability</b> and self-sufficiency within the team—while support is available, success in this role requires the ability to drive ideas forward and problem-solve proactively.</li>

<li><b>Are an experienced leader:</b> You have leadership experience in a AAA environment art role and thrive on mentoring and developing teams.</li><li><b>Thrive on ownership:</b> You have a strong sense of ownership and enjoy being accountable for a team’s success.</li><li><b>Are self-driven:</b> You thrive in ambiguity and can take a high-level vision and turn it into reality without needing every detail defined.</li><li><b>Have shipped a AAA title:</b> You have 7+ years of experience as an Environment Artist in game development, with at least one shipped AAA title in a leadership role.</li><li><b>Excel in small teams:</b> You produce your best work on small, collaborative teams. If you produce your best work on big teams with lots of specialized roles, this is not the right fit for you.</li><li><b>Have a strong artistic eye:</b> You possess a keen eye for architecture, material definition, lighting, color theory, and world-building.</li><li><b>Are technically proficient:</b> You are highly proficient in Maya (or other 3D modeling packages), ZBrush, Photoshop, and Substance Painter.</li><li><b>Understand game engines:</b> You have extensive experience working with game engines (Unreal, Unity) and understand PBR materials, UV layout, performance optimizations, and world-building workflows.</li><li><b>Value collaboration:</b> You can effectively communicate and collaborate across disciplines.</li><li><b>Are passionate about mentorship:</b> You are passionate about team development and fostering a positive, inclusive work environment.</li><li><b>Balance creativity and production:</b> You understand how to balance creative vision with production realities and are skilled at making strategic trade-offs.</li><li><b>Have a growth mindset:</b> You value both teaching and learning from others.</li>

<li><b>Are passionate about our game: </b>We're excited to playtest it daily as a team and can’t wait to share it with the world!</li><li><b>Strive for excellence: </b>We're dedicated to excellence and love pushing the limits of what we can create together.</li><li><b>Value ownership:</b> We care about building an environment where people have meaningful impact and ownership of their work.</li><li><b>Build authentic relationships: </b>We prioritize strong relationships and regularly bring people together.</li><li><b>Encourage growth: </b>We offer opportunities to learn and contribute beyond your focused discipline.</li>

Bonfire is seeking a talented and passionate Senior/Principal Concept Artist to help us visualize captivating and believable characters for Arkheron, our first game and new original IP. The ideal candidate is a creative problem-solver with exceptional draftsmanship and a solid understanding of human and creature anatomy, costume, and prop design. A successful candidate not only generates innovative ideas, but also possesses the ability to translate those ideas into effective design solutions that elevate both the characters and the narrative.

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. This role is anticipated to be an on-site work position at our Irvine, California studio.


<div><span style="font-size:16px">Bonfire is seeking a talented and passionate Senior/Principal Concept Artist to help us visualize captivating and believable characters for Arkheron, our first game and new original IP. The ideal candidate is a creative problem-solver with exceptional draftsmanship and a solid understanding of human and creature anatomy, costume, and prop design. A successful candidate not only generates innovative ideas, but also possesses the ability to translate those ideas into effective design solutions that elevate both the characters and the narrative.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">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. This role is anticipated to be an on-site work position at our Irvine, California studio.</span></div>

<li>Create concept art for characters, creatures, and props– ranging from loose exploration sketches all the way to fully rendered designs.</li><li>Valuing clear concepts is essential for this role, and through developing visually striking and clear character skin concepts, you will help build a rich narrative that seamlessly aligns with the IP.</li><li>Work closely with Art Directors, Artists, Animators, and Designers on character and creature design and function.</li><li>Collaborate with 3D Artists by providing extensive paint-overs to push the visuals further and problem-solve.</li><li>Create thoroughly researched mood boards and quick iterative sketches that inspire new possible themes.</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><b>A stunning portfolio that highlights the best of your craft.</b> You have built a career working on projects that push the limits of quality and creativity. This can come from designing characters, costumes, and creatures that are memorable and beloved (or loathed!) in AAA gaming or film. You demonstrate outstanding draftsmanship, a strong understanding of artistic fundamentals, and have a depth of knowledge in costume and fashion design across various eras and cultures. You have a strong sense of materials and the ability to communicate them visually. You are able to illustrate FX and animation through storyboards, and have expert-level Photoshop skills. Keeping the art quality bar high is important to you, and you proactively look for ways to adapt to and address creative challenges.</li><li><b>Your passion for collaboration is high.</b> You have the ability to work effectively in various team settings and adapt communication styles to meet the needs of your team (written, verbal, and visual). You enjoy working across disciplines, and proactively seek and apply feedback to enhance visual design. You show curiosity for the challenges your team is facing, and use those insights to better understand how art supports gameplay. You embrace accountability, meet deadlines, and can self-start and self-manage yourself to keep pace with the development team.</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>

Character Concept Artist (Principal/Senior)

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><span style="font-size:16px">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.</span></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>

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><span style="font-size:16px">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.</span></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><span style="font-size:16px">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.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">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.</span></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><span style="font-size:16px">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!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">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.</span></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><span style="font-size:16px">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.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:16px">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.</span></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>

Fun and deeply rewarding gameplay first.

Creates imaginary worlds that captivate and inspire self-expression.

Online multiplayer that promotes camaraderie and cultivates welcoming, long lasting communities.

Becomes a meaningful part of a player’s life and personal stories.

What
we value in
*our* game

We playtest the game daily, using our passion as players to drive our continuous experiments and discoveries. Once we believe in an idea, we commit fully - no half measures.

We need to fall in love with our game and be thrilled to play it every day. If we don’t, it’s not good enough. Our players will only be as excited as we are.

To our players

We're committed to keeping a team size that ensures developers remain deeply connected to the player experience and to each other.

This fosters tight-knit collaboration across disciplines and empowers everyone to meaningfully influence the game's direction.

To our team

Our
Commitment

Ignite *your*
superpower

Who
we are

More *about*
Bonfire

We playtest the game daily, using our passion as players to drive our continuous experiments and discoveries.