Senior Game Platform Engineer

Technacity Group; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing gaming studio seeks a passionate software engineer to join their remote-first team. You'll tackle challenging technical problems, drive core game development, and innovate with high-scale cloud infrastructure, particularly with AWS. This role offers a dynamic, collaborative environment where creativity and fun are central.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience required.
• 4+ years of building and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
• High proficiency in a backend programming language like Go, C#, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Drive development of core game and build infrastructure.
• Build core services to support game and backend development.
• Improve game build tools and maintain observability tools.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Problem solving

Process automation

Infrastructure management

Git

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Unreal

Perforce

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

Join a fast-growing, VC-backed gaming studio that was founded by passionate innovators with a vision to revolutionize the shooter genre. With a remote-first team of top-tier talent from some of the biggest gaming and tech companies, this studio thrives on creativity, grit, and fun. You'll be part of an exciting, collaborative environment where you'll have the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects in a dynamic, startup-driven culture. If you're ready to push the boundaries of gaming and shape the future of the genre, we want to hear from you!

What We're Looking For:

• A passionate engineer: You love to take on seemingly impossible technical problems and dig in to find creative ways to solve them.
• Proven advanced ability to prepare, evaluate and maintain tools supporting and process automation for software or hardware product release.
• Design, manage and execute tools and scripts to develop different versions of products on wide-range operating systems.
• Do what needs to get done, while you have fun.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Drive development of core game and build infrastructure
• Build core services used across the company to support the game and backend development process
• Help manage an ever growing fleet of Kubernetes clusters and backend services in the cloud
• Improve and maintain game build tools (Unreal Horde, Perforce, Unreal Game Sync, Robomerge, etc.)
• Evolve the game and companies' release process
• Maintain and improve platform and game observability tools - Datadog, Sentry, etc.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software development experience
• 4+ years building and maintaining high scale cloud infrastructure
• High proficiency with a common backend programming language (Go, C#, Java, etc.)
• Expert in cloud technologies with a strong preference for AWS
• Strong working knowledge of Git and preferably Perforce
• Familiarity with Unreal and Unreal build/automation tooling is a big plus