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# Sr. Software Engineer (Backend/Infra) at Argus Labs

- **Company:** Argus Labs
- **Location:** Indonesia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/argus-labs/am9icG9zdDpkXveM229NlfwFbrsiU2O3

## Job description

Job description

- Develop and maintain the core game technology infrastructure that serves as the backend for our game worlds
- Architect systems that allow games, marketplaces, and user-generated content/platforms to communicate and interoperate seamlessly
- Work closely with game designers and other software engineers to ensure that our technology meets the needs of our games and players
- Continuously improve and optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of our infrastructure

## Requirements

- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a focus on distributed systems or backend.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems principles and algorithms
- Proficiency in Go with prior experience shipping production-grade code
- Experience with container orchestration software (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Passion for games and game technology

## Nice to have

- Experience with game technology infrastructure development and/or game engine development
- Proficiency in Rust
- Experience leading an engineering team
- Experience with blockchain core protocol engineering
- Experience with Cosmos SDK

## About Argus Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Argus Labs builds open, interoperable, and emergent massively multiplayer online games and the onchain infrastructure to power them.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, $10M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with additional offices in Berkeley, CA and remote hubs in Indonesia)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Scott Sunarto (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer Games / Blockchain Gaming / Onchain Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B for game developers using the World Engine; B2C for players of their own games (e.g., Dark Frontier)
- **Mission statement**: To build the Internet of Games – a future where games are open, interoperable, and shaped by emergent gameplay.

## Products & Services
- **World Engine**: A novel layer‑2 sharded rollup SDK that lets developers build horizontally scalable, fully onchain blockchain games while inheriting Ethereum’s security. EVM‑compatible, designed for computationally intensive games (not NFTs).
- **Dark Frontier**: A fully onchain, zero‑knowledge space conquest MMORTS (Massively Multiplayer Online Real‑Time Strategy) game powered by the World Engine.
- **Research Lab**: Internal R&D arm that builds novel infrastructure, primitives, and game economy designs.
- **Game Studio**: Builds games on the World Engine stack to trailblaze the Internet of Games.
- **Game Publisher**: Helps external studios building on the World Engine get from 0 to 1 with infrastructure, research, and growth support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $10M (Seed round, June 2023)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by **Haun Ventures** (12 investors total)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 13 employees (down ~21% YoY, but actively hiring across APAC, LATAM, and US)
  - Open‑source GitHub presence with 15 repos (World Engine has 116 stars)
  - Published first‑party game (Dark Frontier) and expanding publishing arm
  - Distributed team across Indonesia, Canada, US, and Vietnam

## Competitive Advantages
- **First‑of‑its‑kind sharding architecture** for onchain games, inspired by traditional MMO server architecture – horizontal scalability without sacrificing security.
- **EVM‑compatible** – taps into the largest blockchain developer ecosystem (Ethereum tools, wallets, and developer talent).
- **“Games company, not a pick‑and‑shovel company”** – they build real games (Dark Frontier) alongside infrastructure, ensuring dogfooding and market alignment.
- **Strong research‑driven culture** – applies bleeding‑edge distributed systems research to practical game design.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the World Engine ecosystem by attracting more game developers and publishers.
- Continue developing Dark Frontier as a flagship onchain MMO.
- Grow the publishing arm to help third‑party studios launch on their stack.
- Hire senior talent across engineering, game development, and leadership (especially in APAC and LATAM regions).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Crypto‑native and gaming‑veteran team working at the intersection of applied research and game design. Small, flat team (~13 people) with high ownership.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Fully remote‑friendly, especially for APAC and LATAM roles. US offices in San Francisco and Berkeley.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge distributed systems and blockchain gaming; influence the direction of the Internet of Games; global team with regular in‑person gatherings (e.g., APAC retreat in Indonesia).
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on first‑principles reasoning, open‑source contributions (GitHub), and building both infrastructure and end‑user games.

## Sources
1. [argus.gg](https://argus.gg/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/arguslabs)
3. [The Org](https://theorg.com/org/argus-labs)
4. [GitHub](https://github.com/argus-labs)
5. [aVenture.vc](https://aventure.vc/companies/argus-labs-mason-oh-us)

## Other roles at Argus Labs

- [Software Engineer (Backend/Infra)](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-backend-infra-argus-labs-indonesia-ek85x2mw6gfb) — Indonesia