Niantic’s mission is to use emerging technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. We build products that inspire movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction.

Niantic is seeking a Software Engineer - Server to build the server infrastructure that supports projects such as Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom and Ingress. You will work on real-time indexing, querying and aggregation problems at massive scales of hundreds of millions of events per day. These technical challenges pertain to a single, coherent world-wide instance shared by millions of users.

We seek engineers with strong technical background, great execution, and self-starter mentality. The ideal candidate loves to jump into the unknown, clarify ambiguities, quickly learn from failures, and break down vague ideas into concrete tasks.

### Responsibilities

- Build and design reliable, high-throughput, low latency and scalable server and networking systems that support Niantic’s developers and products.
- Build key components of the platform that developers can incorporate to create rich experiences in their games.
- Perform load testing, participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems.
- Collaborate with other specialists, product managers, and other departments to ensure code meets internal standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 2 days on Wednesday and Thursday.

### Qualifications

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience building reliable scalable platforms.
- Proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Go or C++ with working knowledge of Python, SQL.
- Experience building networked and distributed systems.
- Experience building concurrent and multi-threaded services.
- Delivered solutions to production environments, and provided tools to monitor, support and mitigate any issues.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

### Plus If…

- Experience with deployment on hosting providers, such as Google Cloud, Azure or AWS.
- Experience with building ETL pipelines or crafting data-related ingestion APIs.
- Familiarity with one or more open source projects, such as Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch and Envoy.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (such as Terraform).
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading projects.

Senior Software Engineer, Server/Backend

Niantic’s mission is to use emerging technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. We build products that inspire movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction.

Niantic is seeking a Software Engineer - Server to build the server infrastructure that supports projects such as Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom and Ingress. You will work on real-time indexing, querying and aggregation problems at massive scales of hundreds of millions of events per day. These technical challenges pertain to a single, coherent world-wide instance shared by millions of users.

We seek engineers with strong technical background, great execution, and self-starter mentality. The ideal candidate loves to jump into the unknown, clarify ambiguities, quickly learn from failures, and break down vague ideas into concrete tasks.

### Responsibilities

- Build and design reliable, high-throughput, low latency and scalable server and networking systems that support Niantic’s developers and products.
- Build key components of the platform that developers can incorporate to create rich experiences in their games.
- Perform load testing, participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems.
- Collaborate with other specialists, product managers, and other departments to ensure code meets internal standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 2 days on Wednesday and Thursday.

### Qualifications

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience building reliable scalable platforms.
- Proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Go or C++ with working knowledge of Python, SQL.
- Experience building networked and distributed systems.
- Experience building concurrent and multi-threaded services.
- Delivered solutions to production environments, and provided tools to monitor, support and mitigate any issues.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

### Plus If…

- Experience with deployment on hosting providers, such as Google Cloud, Azure or AWS.
- Experience with building ETL pipelines or crafting data-related ingestion APIs.
- Familiarity with one or more open source projects, such as Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch and Envoy.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (such as Terraform).
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading projects.

Niantic is seeking Software Engineers to help build next-generation augmented reality and location-based games using Niantic’s Real World Platform.  The ideal candidate has a love for games and the ability to collaborate with Unity developers, technical artists, and game designers in order to build fun games at scale. We seek engineers with strong judgment, great execution, and a willingness to take on new responsibilities. You will work on all aspects of the game backend, from designing RPC protocols to writing game logic to deploying and monitoring the servers. Building systems with security and scalability in mind is a must.

Our focus is shipping fun, world-class games. We value engineers who consistently deliver quality results. You will join an outstanding team of like-minded people to create cutting-edge mobile and AR experiences.

### Responsibilities

- Create robust, low-latency, scalable systems that support Niantic’s products.
- Design the RPC protocols and implement server-side features in Java.
- Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and other departments to ensure code meets internal standards.
- Perform load testing, participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 3 days on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

### Qualifications

- You have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 2+ years of experience building reliable scalable platforms, 5+ years for senior level candidates.
- Proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Go or C++.
- Experience building networked and distributed systems.
- Experience building concurrent and multi-threaded services.
- Delivered solutions to production environments, and provided tools to monitor, support and mitigate any issues.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

### Plus If…

- You have experience with deployment on hosting providers, such as Google Cloud, Azure or AWS.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (such as Terraform).
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading projects.
- Proficient in Japanese (JLPT N2 or equivalent)

### **Join the Niantic team!**

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zurich. #LI-HYBRID

Software Engineer, Tokyo

Niantic’s Engineering Team seeks a Software Engineer specialized in Machine Learning Engineering to build platforms that empower engineers and researchers to create innovative user experiences with the emerging Generative AI technologies. Our team powers capabilities across our games, geo-based, and AR platforms through productionizing large scale models. Your work will directly help grow the features in our games as well as the capabilities of our technology platforms.

Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of AR and other immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions.

### Responsibilities

- Implement and maintain scalable infrastructure solutions to support the deployment of generative AI models.
- Develop automation tools and processes to streamline model evaluation and deployment workflows.
- Optimize infrastructure performance to ensure efficient resource utilization and minimize latency in model inference.
- Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the reliability and availability of AI infrastructure components.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design infrastructure solutions that meet business objectives.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI infrastructure technologies and best practices, and evaluate their applicability to the organization's needs.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architecture planning sessions to maintain high-quality standards in software development practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to AI infrastructure, working closely with stakeholders to identify root causes and implement solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday.

### Qualifications

- You have at least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 2+ years of experience in designing, building, and optimizing distributed systems or cloud-based infrastructure.
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go, with experience in developing production-quality code.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

### Plus If...

- You have experience developing and maintaining machine learning platforms.
- You have experience with machine learning/AI in a cloud native environment.
- You have experience in Generative AI infrastructure.
- You have experience with DevOps practices, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) is a plus.
- You have strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- You have experience mentoring others.
- You have experience delivering solutions of high technical complexity and depth at the domain level.

Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Niantic’s Engineering Team seeks a Staff Software Engineer specialized in Generative AI Infrastructure to build platforms that empower engineers and researchers to create innovative user experiences with the emerging Generative AI technologies. Our team powers capabilities across our games, geo-based, and AR platforms through productionalizing large scale models. Your work will directly help grow the features in our games as well as the capabilities of our technology platforms.

Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of AR and other immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions.

### Responsibilities

- Co-lead the technology and innovation strategy for Generative AI infrastructure at Niantic.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest Generative AI infrastructure innovations, build and iterate the full-stack Generative AI infrastructure.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest Generative AI model innovations, proactively manage the internal-hosting model fleet.
- Work with cross-functional partners, including engineers, machine learning researchers, product managers, game producers and art designers, to understand their technical needs, or translate their non-technical demands into technical requirements, and develop platform solutions that accelerate their journeys.
- Enable cutting-edge Generative AI application prototyping and development on multi-platform through infrastructure building blocks.
- Contribute to the growth of the Generative AI ecosystem at Niantic by producing and maintaining high quality documentations, organizing interactive codelabs etc.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday.

### Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 5+ years of experience with machine learning/AI in a software development environment.
- 3+ years of experience developing and maintaining machine learning platforms.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

### Plus If...

- You have experience in Generative AI infrastructure.
- You have experience with machine learning/AI in a cloud native environment.
- You have experience with infrastructure cost management in a cloud native environment.
- You have experience in edge-computing.

Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Niantic’s AR Web / 8th Wall Team is seeking an adventurous Software Engineer, Web/Full Stack. We seek engineers with strong technical background, great execution, and self-starter mentality. The ideal candidate loves to jump into the unknown, clarify ambiguities, quickly learn from failures, and break down vague ideas into concrete tasks.

### Responsibilities

- Architect and implement web features in Javascript/Typescript.
- Build AR experiences & mini-games targeting Head-Mounted Display (HMD) devices.
- Build developer toolings and SDKs to turbocharge HMD AR development on the Web.
- Build backend services for our HMD products.
- Collaborate between web, design, and product teams to ensure the goals of the product are aligned with the delivered feature or service.
- Participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to cultivate strong working relationships with project team members, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 5 days a week Monday - Friday in our Palo Alto office.

### Qualifications

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in JavaScript / Typescript and the Node ecosystem.
- Proficiency in 3D graphics and rendering (ThreeJS, WebGL, OpenGL).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

### Plus If...

- Experience building websites that are cross-device and browser compatible.
- Experience building custom game engines.
- Experience building AR experiences on HMD such as Meta Quest devices.
- Experience building games.

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Niantic

Niantic inspires people to explore the world, together. Our mission is to use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. Originally formed at Google in 2011, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zurich.

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