Senior Network Platform Engineer - Remote & Hybrid

Game Companies; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

Retirement Savings Plan Matching

Flexible Work Arrangements - In-House,

Generous Time Off Policy

Company Events - In-Person + Virtual

Fully Stocked Kitchen

Job summary

Turtle Rock is seeking a Senior Network Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the online infrastructure behind a AAA title. You will own backend services, guide technical direction, and mentor engineers while supporting large-scale online multiplayer systems.

Based in Orange County, CA, we offer flexible work arrangements from in-studio to hybrid and remote across North America. You will report to the Networking Lead and work with cross-functional teams to land new features and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, backend/network/infrastructure/distributed systems
• Proven experience with backend languages and tools (Kotlin preferred)
• Strong database experience: RDBMS, NoSQL, caching layers
• Fundamentals of concurrency, asynchronous techniques, and consistency tradeoffs
• Comfortable with Linux command line and security considerations at all layers
• Familiarity with networking stack: DNS, routing, packet capture
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and operate large-scale distributed systems
• Own the shipping lifecycle and production operations for services
• Integrate external APIs and cloud platform services
• Analyze and optimize platform costs from design to live operations
• Define engineering standards, runbooks, and documentation
• Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to land new features
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in on-call support
• Contribute to live-service stability and incident response

Skills

Backend systems

Network platform

Distributed systems

Linux CLI

Kotlin

Concurrency

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

RDBMS

NoSQL

CI/CD

Job description

Turtle Rock is seeking a Senior Network Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the online infrastructure behind a AAA title. You will own backend services, guide technical direction, and mentor engineers while supporting large-scale online multiplayer systems.

Based in Orange County, CA, we offer flexible work arrangements from in-studio to hybrid and remote across North America. You will report to the Networking Lead and work with cross-functional teams to land new features and