Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Live Services Flexible

Turtle Rock Studios, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Turtle Rock Studios is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems behind our live AAA title. You will own the shipping lifecycle, integrate external APIs, and optimize platform costs while mentoring junior engineers and helping set engineering standards.

The role emphasizes a security-minded, highly collaborative engineer with strong Linux, networking, and concurrency fundamentals, and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on backend, network, or distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, Linux, databases, and networking.
• A security mindset at all layers and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and operate large-scale distributed systems behind a live AAA title.
• Own the full shipping lifecycle, integrating external APIs and optimizing platform costs.
• Mentor junior engineers and help set engineering standards.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Linux

Networking

Communication skills

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Azure

GCP

Live-service operations

Job description

Turtle Rock Studios is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems behind our live AAA title. You will own the shipping lifecycle, integrate external APIs, and optimize platform costs while mentoring junior engineers and helping set engineering standards.

The role emphasizes a security-minded, highly collaborative engineer with strong Linux, networking, and concurrency fundamentals, and excellent communication skills.