Video Game Build Engineer
- Location
- Across United States
- Salary
- Not specified
- Company
- Akash pawar
Job description
### Role & Company / Project Overview The Donovan's Venom, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is seeking a Video Game Build Engineer for a remote volunteer role reporting to the Director of Game Development / CTO. In this role within the Technology / Game Development department, you will design and maintain build pipelines, automation tools, and workflows that keep our flagship educational serious game running smoothly, enabling programmers, artists, and designers to bring their work into one shared project reliably. ### Key Responsibilities & Daily Duties - Design, maintain, and optimize automated build pipelines. - Develop auto-updater systems for versioning, packaging, patching, and distribution. - Automate Unity builds using C# and integrate them with distribution tools. - Reduce build times and speed up asset imports using caching, incremental builds, and parallelization. - Streamline asset import and source control workflows for the whole team. - Diagnose and fix build failures, asset issues, and regressions. - Create internal tools and document build procedures and processes for remote teams. ### Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience - Experience or knowledge in game development, build engineering, software engineering, DevOps, or workflow automation. - Familiarity with automated build pipelines and software integration. - Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. - Solid understanding of source control and collaborative workflows (Git). - Ability to work independently and collaborate with a remote team. - Commitment to our nonprofit mission. - Preferred / A Plus: Experience with Unity and C#; CI/CD tools; Git; auto-updaters or patching systems; build caching and optimization; asset pipelines and build servers. ### Working Hours, Shifts & Location Details - Location: Remote (open to candidates in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom). - Position Type: Volunteer Role. - Department: Technology / Game Development. ### Compensation & Benefits - Volunteer opportunity / unpaid nonprofit volunteer position. ### Application Instructions - Apply via the online application link provided in the posting.