Game engineering services: gameplay, multiplayer platforms and server ops
Rocket Science Group runs specialized studios that take on engine, multiplayer and live-ops engineering for game developers. Its stack pairs Unreal Engine, Unity and C++ with Kubernetes, Terraform and a deep data layer (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, dbt), pointing to backend and analytics work well beyond client-side game code. Principal-heavy engineering hiring centers on netcode for a proprietary AAA engine and multiplayer server architecture.
Rocket Science Group is a privately held game technology services company headquartered in Schenectady, New York, with 51–200 employees. It operates through separate studios: Atomic Theory covers gameplay, UX/UI, engine and pipeline work; Terminal Velocity handles multiplayer platform engineering and cloud services; Multiplay supports game server hosting and live operations; and Space Rangers recruits gaming talent. It sells to game studios that want to hand off difficult technical work. Hiring spans the United States and the United Kingdom.
Unreal Engine, Unity, C++, C#, Go, Rust and TypeScript, on AWS with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins and ArgoCD, plus BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow and dbt for data.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and centers on engineering, much of it at principal level, alongside some product hiring, in the United States and United Kingdom.
Current job posts point to network features for a proprietary AAA game engine and to multiplayer server architecture work.
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