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About the Role
As a Senior Server Developer, you will help design, develop, and maintain the systems that keep Albion Online world running smoothly. You’ll work on backend features and services that support millions of players, ensuring stability, scalability and performance across a continuously evolving live environment. This role requires deep technical expertise, a proactive mindset and a passion for large-scale online systems. You’ll collaborate closely with game developers and designers to deliver reliable tools, features and infrastructure that enhance the gameplay experience and support ongoing content updates.
Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain high-throughput backend systems that power Albion Online’s large-scale, persistent world
- Develop and optimize server-side gameplay features, live tools and real-time networking systems using C#
- Work with our Release Operations team to ensure smooth deployment of patches and content updates
- Ensure system reliability, performance and scalability across global regions and large player populations
- Implement monitoring and observability tools to improve issue detection and system resilience
- Collaborate with client engineers and game designers to integrate gameplay logic and backend functionality
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical planning for feature growth and long-term system health
- Support and mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of technical pragmatism and performance
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend or network programming for online or multiplayer games.
- Strong proficiency in C# and experience with the Unity engine
- Proven experience with client-server architecture, game server logic and live game maintenance
- Solid understanding of database systems (SQL/NoSQL), cloud environments and distributed server infrastructure
- Experience with performance optimization, debugging, and profiling in large-scale systems
- Excellent communication skills (presentation, verbal and written) in English
Skills
- C#
- Unity engine
- Client-server architecture
- Game server logic
- Live game maintenance
- Database systems (SQL/NoSQL)
- Cloud environments
- Distributed server infrastructure
- Performance optimization
- Debugging
- Profiling
- MMORPGs
- Sandbox games
- Albion Online
- Persistent-world systems
- Live operations workflows
- DevOps practices
- Monitoring tools
- CI/CD pipelines
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Hybrid Work model
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- BVG corporate ticket
- Personal Development
- Company-sponsored training and language courses
- Company-sponsored tickets for Gamescom Dev & other game conferences
- Discounted membership to Urban Sport Club
- Access to nilo health for confidential mental health support, coaching, and wellbeing resources
- Extra vacation days awarded based on years of service, up to a maximum of 30 days annually
- Free drinks and snacks in the office
- Team events, breakfast weeks, summer and winter parties
About the Company
- Sandbox Interactive is the ambitious game development studio behind the award-winning game Albion Online.
- The game is the first true cross-platform MMO, and is playable on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android with more than 350.000 daily players and over 2 million monthly visitors on our website.
- We started as a small independent group of experienced gaming professionals in 2012, and now employ an international team of more than 100 people.
- Since 2020, Sandbox Interactive has been part of the Stillfront Group.
- Our team is passionate about making Albion Online the best game it can be, and we’re constantly on the lookout for talented individuals to join our growing team in the heart of Berlin.
- Work in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, a central, vibrant neighborhood in Berlin with many dining and entertainment options.
- Benefit from free drinks and snacks in the office.
- Participate in team events, breakfast weeks, summer and winter parties.
- Be part of a successful, profitable company on a continued growth path.
- Work alongside a supportive team of gaming enthusiasts who are deeply committed to their craft.
- Join a team of industry experts shaping a game enjoyed by hundreds of thousands worldwide.