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Posted Apr 26, 2026

Software Engineer, L5 – Cloud Gaming Transport R&D

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Job Description: • Help refine and improve our understanding of network path characteristics (including in-home WiFi behavior, bufferbloat mitigation on shared access links, and so forth) • Refine and import our heuristics for rate & latency estimation, rate adaptation, congestion control, and loss recovery for RTP-based media streams • Collaborate with colleagues to implement and deploy new ideas in our server-side transport stack • Work closely with server, client and data analytics colleagues to improve our lab-based and production (A/B) testing techniques for evaluating service performance Requirements: • Experience identifying and solving highly complex transport problems that are open-ended or ambiguous and result in significant business or technical impact • Experience designing, implementing and deploying WebRTC-like transport stacks for interactive, ultra low-latency streaming applications • Familiarity with how low-latency, two-way media flows over IP networks interact with WiFi paths, bufferbloat, active queue management, and concurrent TCP-like traffic • Practical understanding of modern strategies for balancing network congestion, goodput, latency and reliability in support of interactive, ultra low-latency streaming • Experience using network lab environments for controlled data networking experiments exploring large, multi-parameter test spaces • Experience using A/B testing methodologies for transport stack performance testing in production • An ability to articulate for diverse audiences the technical and business implications of performance measurement experiments executed both in the lab and in production • Experience with modern tools and scripting languages used for network traffic capture, test orchestration, post-capture analysis and presentation Benefits: • Health Plans • Mental Health support • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match • Stock Option Program • Disability Programs • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts • Family-forming benefits • Life and Serious Injury Benefits • Paid leave of absence programs • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off
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