Senior DevOps Engineer

Lightspeed Studios; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 106,100 - 223,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Sign-on payment

401(k)

15–25 days of vacation

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Job summary

Lightspeed Studios is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate games globally, focusing on internal products. You will be involved in solving complex production challenges through cloud deployments, automating tasks, and collaborating with global teams.

The position requires 6+ years of engineering experience, expertise in cloud architecture, and a strong understanding of programming languages like Python and Golang. The role offers potential sign-on payments, relocation packages, and a comprehensive benefits package, including medical and retirement options.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering or similar role.
• 5+ years designing scalable production services.
• Experience with Perforce at an administrative level.
• Excellent communication skills and able to write technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Eliminate toil by building tooling or automating tasks.
• Respond to incidents critical to business or player issues.
• Contribute to optimal strategies for infrastructure as code.
• Mentor 1 or 2 engineers in the SRE community.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Production Engineering

DevOps

Python

Golang

Containerization

Cloud Architecture

Incident Response

Technical Documentation

Tools

Perforce

Unreal Engine 5

Jenkins

Job description

Business Unit

What the Role Entails
At the core of Tencent IEG (Interactive Entertainment Group)’s success are engineers that uphold integrity, collaborate whole heartedly, and actively seek out challenges with creative solutions. Our mission is to make Tencent games globally available for all users anywhere or anytime through reliability as a service. Tencent IEG’s Site Reliability Engineers leverage software engineering skills to help solve complex distributed production live services challenges by actively engaging, mentoring, orchestrating and operating global services across multiple continents and timezones. You will have the opportunity to interface games services at a global scale through multiple cloud deployments, while consistently execute with excellence and consistency.

Role Definition

A member of the Site Reliability Engineer in the Tencent IEG organization will primarily be on the execution and operations of multiple games across the globe, with an emphasis on Tencent internal products and/or collaborating with studios on future games that are yet to be released.

Responsibilities

• Insatiable desire to eliminate toil by building tooling or automating away repetitive tasks or building cloud native solutions that will proactively mitigate problems before they arise.
• Provide subject matter expertise and on‑call support for specific games and/or platform services.
• Respond to incidents that are critical to business or player issues.
• Contribute to the development of optimal strategies and procedures for implementing infrastructure as code in the cloud, ensuring secure, dependable, and efficient deployment.
• Collaborate closely with fellow engineers and studio representatives while maintaining a strong working relationship based on trust, respect and empathy.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor 1 or 2 engineers, while fostering the growth of the SRE community.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Production Engineering, SRE, DevOps or a similar role.
• Experience with Perforce at an administrative level (Perforce Commit | Brokers | Proxies | Replicas).
• A problem‑oriented mindset capable of working on global scalability/reliability problems backwards starting with why.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience designing and managing scalable production services/solutions.
• 3+ years of experience building, deploying, scaling and troubleshooting containerized applications in a production environment.
• Understanding of well‑architected cloud architecture framework and SRE principles.
• 5 years of in‑depth knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash, or Golang (not limited to).
• Expertise in proactively identifying and implementing solutions that decrease failures, bridge technical gaps, and increase service health confidence through observability.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write concise and accurate technical documentation and participate in technical decision making.
• Preferred: Experience with Unreal Engine 5x developer ecosystem, including DDC, Horde and Preflight; CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins or Horde; optimizing build bottlenecks that impact developer experience.

Benefits

Salary range: $106,100.00–$223,100.00 per year (location: Los Angeles, CA). Possible sign‑on payment, relocation package, restricted stock units, medical/dental/vision/life/disability benefits, 401(k), 15–25 days of vacation, 13 days of holidays, 10 days of paid sick leave. Benefits may be adjusted based on location, employment status, duration, and position level.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent. As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.