[Remote] Senior Tools Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Eleventh Hour Games is a fast growing studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. As a Senior Tools Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain internal tools and workflows that empower teams to create and iterate on content efficiently in the Last Epoch universe.
Responsibilities
- Partner with design, art, production, and engineering to gather requirements and translate them into effective tools
- Develop data pipelines, editors, automation, and validation systems to improve reliability and consistency of content
- Create and maintain clear documentation and best practices for tool usage and workflow standards
- Identify pipeline bottlenecks and proactively propose solutions that improve productivity and quality
- Ensure tooling is performant, maintainable, and resilient as project scope and team size grow
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and long-term tooling strategy planning
- Support live development by improving and maintaining tools that enable new content, updates, and operational needs
Skills
- 5+ years of professional game development experience as a Tools Engineer, Engine Programmer, or similar role
- Strong experience building developer tools, pipelines, or editors used by designers and/or artists in production
- Solid understanding of software architecture, maintainable systems design, and data-driven workflows
- Strong debugging, profiling, and problem-solving skills with a focus on improving developer experience
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build tools that are intuitive and actually used
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a team
- Comfortable working in a fully remote, globally distributed studio
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to gather requirements and iterate with stakeholders
- Experience supporting systems-heavy games (ARPGs/RPGs) or live-service content pipelines
- Experience building content validation, diagnostics, or automation frameworks
- Familiarity with modern real-time engines and content authoring pipelines
- Experience improving build/iteration workflows and developer efficiency at scale
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