Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Live Games & Infra

Mattel Game Studios; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mattel Game Studios is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own cloud infrastructure and live services for mobile games. You will collaborate with game production, tech teams, and external studios from planning to live operations, solving challenges of operating services at global scale.

You will write automation, troubleshoot production issues, and help developers deploy their applications. Your work supports publishing platforms and live operations tooling across titles.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure for large-scale services.
• Proficiency with IaC and automation (Terraform, scripting).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure. Design and run GCP environments for games and backend services. Guide decisions on APIs, databases, and caching. Manage hosting and content delivery, and plan for traffic growth, capacity, and cloud costs.
• Automate infrastructure and workflows using Terraform and scripts to ensure reproducibility and safety.
• Own build and deployment pipelines. Manage CI/CD pipelines, build servers, and deployment infra for games and services.
• Own monitoring, alerting, and automated reporting. Define actionable alerts and cost reporting for studios and leadership.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring and alerting

Tools

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Git

Job description

Mattel Game Studios is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own cloud infrastructure and live services for mobile games. You will collaborate with game production, tech teams, and external studios from planning to live operations, solving challenges of operating services at global scale.

You will write automation, troubleshoot production issues, and help developers deploy their applications. Your work supports publishing platforms and live operations tooling across titles.