Lead Platform Engineer - Infrastructure & Backend

Role overview Lead the engineering team responsible for the cloud, data, backend, and web foundations that support mobile games and internal products. The role combines hands-on software development with technical planning, production ownership, and coordination across engineering, analytics, product, QA, and partner teams.

Responsibilities - Set the team’s technical roadmap and guide engineers through architecture, implementation, code review, and complex problem solving. - Operate and improve AWS infrastructure, including reliability, security, monitoring, automation, delivery pipelines, and cost management. - Evolve data and analytics infrastructure, including Snowflake and high-volume game event pipelines, in partnership with analytics teams. - Design, build, and maintain shared backend services, APIs, game servers, and live game infrastructure. - Turn unclear technical or business needs into recommendations and delivery plans, then guide projects through rollout and ongoing improvement. - Support internal products, websites, APIs, and teams integrating with shared services.

Requirements - Strong software engineering experience building and operating production systems. - Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and backend or distributed systems. - Background with modern data platforms and high-volume pipelines; Snowflake is preferred. - Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and cloud cost management. - Experience leading engineers and owning technical roadmaps while staying hands-on. - Ability to work across code, architecture, infrastructure, and production operations.

Benefits and work setup The role is remote for candidates based in selected U.S. states. Candidates in Dallas follow a hybrid schedule with four office days per week. The listed base salary range is $150,000–$185,000, with the final offer depending on qualifications and business needs. Benefits include medical coverage, professional development, parental leave, an employee assistance program, and annual team events.