Citing the tech media Phoronix, Amazon is hiring Linux game engineers with senior experience in Valve's DXVK and Proton, Mesa open source graphics drivers, Vulkan, and more. The recruited engineers will be involved in the Amazon Luna cloud gaming project, and an Amazon engineer confirmed that this is indeed for the real Linux game engineers.
The job posting also provides interesting job details: "This role involves working with Proton, a compatible layer that uses Wine to run Windows games on Linux. Luna is committed to working with the open source community around Proton. This character will submit code to open source projects such as Proton and Wine in pursuit of running the game in a stable and high-performance manner." It's great to see that it will obviously also focus on upstream contributions, not just a private warehouse on Amazon. In turn, these upstream improvements will permeate traditional Linux gamers who don't use Amazon's Luna Cloud Gaming Services and benefit the entire ecosystem.
Amazon is looking for candidates with years of experience and has previously done things like graphics/GPU programming. Amazon Luna was launched in late 2020 as their cloud gaming platform. Currently, Luna is available to gamers in the United States in the form of early access. Amazon has a partial partnership with Ubisoft on Luna games, and Ubisoft is also hiring for Linux, though it may not be related, as Ubisoft's ads are looking for Google's computing experience rather than the Amazon/AWS Cloud.
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