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Platform Engineer
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About this role
Role overview
Improve the infrastructure and development workflows behind a large-scale game project as part of an established engineering team. The work spans cloud platform operations, infrastructure automation, build and deployment pipelines, and live-service support, with a focus on reliability and enabling development teams.
Responsibilities - Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure for game development and live services. - Provision cloud resources using infrastructure-as-code tools. - Apply security and compliance practices to gaming infrastructure. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for game builds and deployments. - Respond to operational issues affecting a live-service game. - Automate development environments and tools for multiple teams.
Requirements - Four or more years of professional Microsoft Azure experience. - Scripting experience with a language such as Python, PowerShell, or Groovy. - Experience with containers and orchestration, such as Docker and Kubernetes. - Understanding of game packaging and deployment requirements across platforms. - Experience compiling code or managing pipelines that compile it. - Experience monitoring and profiling applications, using tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus. - Ability to debug unexpected development issues and communicate proactively to resolve blockers. - Prior game development experience is required.
Nice to have
Experience with game build systems such as Jenkins, TeamCity, or Azure DevOps; additional cloud providers; game development workflows and asset management; Go; multi-cloud applications; or version control such as Perforce or Git LFS.
Benefits and work setup
Hybrid work from an office in Saratoga Springs, New York, is preferred, with Tuesday through Thursday given as office days; fully remote candidates in the Eastern United States may also be considered. Listed annual compensation is $100,000–$150,000. Benefits include flexible paid time off, nine paid holidays and a winter closure, medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k), paid parental leave, and an annual video game budget.