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About the Role

Join Linden Lab as a Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical future of Second Life's server and simulation systems. Tackle complex challenges, lead technical initiatives, and ensure system scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Create leverage beyond code by connecting teams, identifying risks, and improving technical decision-making.

Responsibilities

Lead technical discovery, design, implementation, and debugging for high-impact changes in large C++ codebases and adjacent systems.
Own complex technical problems from definition to production, delivering durable solutions.
Develop a deep understanding of Second Life's systems, engineering practices, and operational context.
Lead the technical design of initiatives spanning multiple systems, codebases, and teams.
Guide architectural decisions to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Proactively identify systemic issues, architectural gaps, and technical risks.
Partner with stakeholders to clarify technical tradeoffs, surface risks, and balance delivery with system health.
Raise the technical capabilities of the team through mentorship, design guidance, and feedback.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
3+ years building or maintaining real-time simulation, game-server, distributed, or complex production systems.
3+ years of production experience with a large, complex C++ codebase.
Strong knowledge of memory management, threading, synchronization, and concurrent systems.
Experience designing, evolving, and operating reliable services across multiple codebases and technical domains.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerized services, asynchronous network programming, and Python or shell scripting.
Proven ability to diagnose and resolve difficult production issues.
Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership: navigating ambiguous problems, making sound engineering decisions, influencing technical direction, and communicating designs, risks, and tradeoffs.
Collaborative approach to technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
Experience with interpreters, virtual machines, embedded scripting engines, bytecode runtimes, sandboxed execution, APIs, or long-term serialization formats is highly desirable.
Familiarity with virtual worlds, MMO or game-server architecture, Second Life, LSL, or Lua is a plus.
On-call responsibilities are performed remotely.
Must be able to perform focused, computer-based tasks and collaborate effectively in a dynamic, in-office environment.
Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively through typing.
Must be able to sit, stand, or remain stationary for extended periods (up to eight hours).
Must be able to sustain prolonged attention on a computer monitor.
Must be able to operate office equipment and handle materials as needed.
Must be able to move freely around the office.
Travel may be required for business meetings, team summits, or company events.

Skills

C++
Memory Management
Threading
Synchronization
Concurrent Systems
Cloud Infrastructure
Containerized Services
Asynchronous Network Programming
Python
Shell Scripting
Interpreters
Virtual Machines
Embedded Scripting Engines
Bytecode Runtimes
Sandboxed Execution
APIs
Long-term Serialization Formats
Virtual Worlds
MMO Architecture
Game-Server Architecture
Second Life
LSL
Lua

Location

San Francisco, CA
Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Onsite
Remote
Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Staff
8+ years professional software engineering experience
3+ years real-time simulation, game-server, distributed, or complex production systems experience
3+ years production experience with large, complex C++ codebase

Salary/Compensations

$174,500 - $236,000
$205,000 (midpoint)

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k) plans
Equity Incentive Plan (EIP)

About the Company

Linden Lab develops platforms that empower people to create, connect, and thrive through transformative virtual experiences.
Founded in 1999, Linden Lab has been at the forefront of the creator economy, building durable platforms that support limitless imagination, self-expression, and human connection.
Launched Second Life in 2003, a vibrant, user-driven virtual world with a global community.
Second Life has hundreds of thousands of active users, over two billion user creations, and a flourishing $650 million economy.
Second Life fosters sustained, positive connection between strangers, offering mobility, agency, and community.
Linden Lab believes its strength lies in diversity of perspectives, experiences, and ideas.
Company values are rooted in organizational health, strengths-based leadership, and collaborative teams.
Work at Linden Lab directly shapes how real people connect, create, and build meaningful lives online.
Join a thoughtful, mission-driven team working on technology with real social impact and uncommon longevity.
Offers the stability of an established company with over 20 years of expertise and the dynamic momentum of a startup.
Vibrant in-office environment in San Francisco designed to foster creativity, collaboration, and ingenuity.
Believes in the power of in-person connections to cultivate a strong sense of community and inclusion.

Equal Opportunity

Linden Lab intentionally seeks out individuals with a wide range of strengths, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Celebrates and values diversity in all its forms, including differences in thought, race, national origin, culture, age, experience, religion, economic and social status, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, and disability.
Fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging empowers the creation and sharing of meaningful experiences.
Invites candidates from all backgrounds to apply.