Meta - Richmond, VA
posted 2 months ago
Oculus Studios is expanding its Central Technology team, focusing on enhancing the capabilities of its First Party Game Studios, which include Armature Studios, Beat Games, BigBox VR, Camouflaj, Downpour Interactive, Sanzaru Games, Twisted Pixel, Supernatural, and Ouru. The Central Technology team plays a crucial role in helping these studios leverage the economies of scale that Meta provides. We are seeking engineers who can effectively navigate Meta's extensive infrastructure and are enthusiastic about the opportunity to assist studios in creating video games. Our collaboration aims to build centralized solutions and shared technologies that reduce overhead for Oculus Studios across the board. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will support engineers who drive common client-facing solutions across Oculus Studios, including Game Hosting & Matchmaking, Voice Chat, In-Game Notifications, Persistent Player & Game Data, Reporting, Moderation, Logging & Analytics, and Common Tooling. Your role will involve providing timely feedback to help engineers grow in their careers, addressing personal concerns that may impact their work, and mediating disputes within the team. You will collaborate with management and leadership across Oculus Studios to ensure alignment on long-term objectives, helping to define the roadmap for Meta's infrastructure and New Technology Support for game studios. You will work to identify common needs across first-party game studios, collecting requirements and proposing solutions to gain buy-in. This includes building shipping features as part of a first-party product and launching them to consumers, while learning from these launches to enhance future engagements. Additionally, you will develop custom solutions that align with the Metaverse, such as Avatars and Common Identity, and support game studios during break/fix scenarios. Your responsibilities will also include onboarding new game studio engineers to Meta infrastructure and internal tools, ensuring that empathy for game development is brought back to core Meta teams. In this role, you will be expected to partner with other teams within Meta to determine the best approaches for migrating game studio services, focusing on reliability, scalability, and security. You will assist game studios in building, scaling, and optimizing new features for their existing and future titles, while gaining familiarity with various coding languages and game engines.