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Senior Software Engineer, Console

Panic Button

Company websitepanicbuttongames.com (Panic Button, opens in new tab)

Base salary $100K  to $200K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Austin, TX

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  • LocationAustin, TX
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

Panic Button is seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer with a strong focus on game porting to join our growing team.  The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of working in software engineering teams in the video game industry, with recent and extensive experience in cross-platform console development.

Requirements

  • 3 years of game console (Xbox, Switch, PlayStation) experience
  • Deep understanding of low-level console-specific (PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo) optimizations and core subsystems, memory management, cross-platform development
  • Mastery of C/C++, with excellent multi-threaded programming techniques

Bonus

  • Experience with console network development
  • Team lead experience
  • Unreal Engine 4 or 5 experience

Salary Range

  • $100,000 - $200,000

Source: Panic Button on Greenhouse · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($100,000) is above 0% of the 260 Software Engineering roles in Texas listed on this site; 7 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $120,000 to $155,525.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 1 other live Panic Button role with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 1 other live Panic Button role with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Software Engineer, Console (this listing)$100K - $200K
Lead Software Engineer$150K - $220K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Panic Button roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

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Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2022-05-23
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Location as the employer wrote it: Austin, TX

- $100,000 - $200,000

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