Senior Network Platform Engineer — Remote & Flexible Work

Turtle Rock Studios, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision coverage

Retirement plan matching

Career development plan

Flexible work arrangements

Generous time off

Company events

Fully stocked kitchen + food trucks

Job summary

Turtle Rock Studios, Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale online infrastructure for our live AAA title. You’ll own the backend, help shape technical direction, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This hands-on role reports to the Networking Lead, offers flexible hybrid/remote work across North America, and rewards strong Linux, Kotlin, and cloud tooling skills with a base pay in the $136,000–$170,000 range.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend, network, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems.
• Kotlin focus; JVM experience not required.
• Proven database experience: traditional RDBMS, persistent NoSQL, and caching layers.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, asynchronous techniques, and consistency tradeoffs.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment at the command line.
• Security mindset at all layers: network, code, database.
• Familiarity with underlying networking stack: DNS, routing, packet capture and analysis.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and operate large-scale distributed systems
• Own not just the code but the entire shipping lifecycle – the same team that builds services owns and operates them in production
• Integrate external APIs and services, including cloud providers and platform first parties
• Analyze and mitigate platform costs from design to continuous optimization
• Help guide engineering standards, operational practices, and documentation for internal teams and external partners
• Work directly with stakeholders in other departments to land new features
• Mentor and support junior engineers
• Participate in on-call or live-service support as needed
• Play the game

Skills

Strong communication skills

Collaborative mindset

Tools

Kotlin

JVM

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Azure

GCP

Linux

Job description

Turtle Rock Studios, Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale online infrastructure for our live AAA title. You’ll own the backend, help shape technical direction, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This hands-on role reports to the Networking Lead, offers flexible hybrid/remote work across North America, and rewards strong Linux, Kotlin, and cloud tooling skills with a base pay in the $136,000–$170,000 range.