Lead Cloud Platform Engineer | Scalable Web & AI Tools

SteelSeries; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% time (slack day) policy.

Continuous education stipend

Early access to SteelSeries gear

Employee discount on SteelSeries gear

Job summary

SteelSeries is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to collaborate with hardware and software product teams to deliver a best-in-class web experience for gamers. You are a data-minded full‑stack cloud engineer with experience building scalable cloud architectures and high‑traffic web APIs, and you have led platform engineering teams.

Experience with AI-assisted development tools is valued. You will mentor engineers, refine code with strong tests, and help shape the quarterly roadmap for the cloud

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering.
• Experience building scalable cloud solutions including container orchestration, database design, and network infrastructure, and distributed systems design.
• Experience designing and building web back ends and web user interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability to build and operate reliable, high‑availability cloud platforms with hands‑on experience in observability (logging, tracing, monitoring) and resilience engineering.
• Proven experience leading a platform engineering team to deliver well documented and well tested cloud solutions.
• Proficiency leveraging AI‑assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and drive engineering efficiency.
• A desire to mentor and elevate fellow engineers.
• Eagerness to continuously learn and excel in the craft of software engineering.
• Experience leading a team of software engineers to produce tested and well‑documented software.

Responsibilities

• Come up to speed with our tech stack. Our new web application is written in React and deployed in AWS using containers.
• Ship a new feature in our cloud platform.
• Evaluate the architecture of our cloud platform, suggest potential areas for refactoring, and work with product management and engineering to plan any desired changes.
• Assist product in defining the quarterly roadmap of work for the cloud platform team.
• Continue to innovate and add features to our web‑based experiences for gamers.
• Play with and give feedback on unannounced hardware products coming out next year.
• Work very closely with our hardware and software product teams to align on the vision for our upcoming products.
• Help define hardware and web APIs to ensure our apps can seamlessly interact with our hardware and cloud services to provide an amazing user experience for our customers.
• Proactively refactor code to achieve a perpetually clean design that has adequate test coverage.
• Evaluate new programming languages, frameworks, and tools and propose when they should be integrated and/or migrated to.
• Work across software teams to educate others on best practices for code, test, and documentation quality.

Skills

Full-stack software engineering

Cloud architectures

Web backends & UI

Observability & resilience

Platform engineering leadership

AI-assisted development

Mentoring

Learning mindset

Team leadership & documentation

Job description

SteelSeries is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to collaborate with hardware and software product teams to deliver a best-in-class web experience for gamers. You are a data-minded full‑stack cloud engineer with experience building scalable cloud architectures and high‑traffic web APIs, and you have led platform engineering teams.

Experience with AI-assisted development tools is valued. You will mentor engineers, refine code with strong tests, and help shape the quarterly roadmap for the cloud