Senior Network Platform Engineer

Role overview A Senior Network Platform Engineer will build and operate the distributed backend systems that support large-scale online multiplayer games. This hands-on role spans technical direction, service delivery, cost management, production operations, and mentoring, with the team responsible for both building services and running them in live environments.

Responsibilities - Design, build, maintain, and operate distributed backend systems for an online game platform. - Own services through the full delivery lifecycle, including production operation and live-service support. - Integrate external APIs and services, including cloud infrastructure and console or platform services. - Track and reduce infrastructure costs from initial design through ongoing optimization. - Establish engineering standards, operational practices, and documentation for internal teams and external partners. - Work with other departments to deliver features, mentor less experienced engineers, and participate in on-call support as needed.

Requirements - At least five years of software engineering experience focused on backend, networking, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems. - Experience with backend languages and tools; a particular JVM language is not required. - Strong database fundamentals across relational systems, persistent NoSQL, and caching layers. - Understanding of concurrency, asynchronous programming, and consistency tradeoffs. - Comfort working in Linux at the command line and familiarity with DNS, routing, and packet capture or analysis. - A security-minded approach across networks, code, and databases, along with strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have Game development, live-service operations, or experience with console and PC platform services is beneficial. Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, CI/CD and automated deployments, live-operations runbooks and incident reviews, or designing for global regulatory requirements are also valued.

Benefits and work setup Work arrangements may be in-studio, hybrid, or fully remote within North America. Listed benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and family, retirement plan matching, career development, generous time off, team events, and workplace food. The estimated base pay range is $136,000–$170,000 USD.