Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure & Live Services - Mattel Digital Studio

Mattel Game Studios; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mattel Game Studios is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own cloud infrastructure and live services for mobile games. You will collaborate with game production, tech teams, and external studios from planning to live operations, solving challenges of operating services at global scale.

You will write automation, troubleshoot production issues, and help developers deploy their applications. Your work supports publishing platforms and live operations tooling across titles.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure for large-scale services.
• Proficiency with IaC and automation (Terraform, scripting).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure. Design and run GCP environments for games and backend services. Guide decisions on APIs, databases, and caching. Manage hosting and content delivery, and plan for traffic growth, capacity, and cloud costs.
• Automate infrastructure and workflows using Terraform and scripts to ensure reproducibility and safety.
• Own build and deployment pipelines. Manage CI/CD pipelines, build servers, and deployment infra for games and services.
• Own monitoring, alerting, and automated reporting. Define actionable alerts and cost reporting for studios and leadership.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring and alerting

Tools

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Git

Job description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER.It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team:

Mattel Game Studios’ mission is to harness the power of Mattel’s iconic brands and IP to create engaging, high-quality digital games.Help Mattel build and operate the infrastructure behind reliable, scalable mobile games. As Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure & Live Services, you will own the cloud infrastructure, build and deployment pipelines, and monitoring systems that help our teams launch confidently and keep live games running well.

Job Description

The Opportunity:

You will work with internal game production and technology teams, external development studios, and Mattel support teams from early planning through live operations. This is a hands‑on role for an engineer who understands the demands of mobile games and enjoys solving the challenges of operating services at global scale.

Alongside infrastructure ownership, you will write automation, troubleshoot production issues, and help developers integrate and deploy their applications. Your development skills will also contribute to our publishing platform and live operations tools.

What Your Impact Will Be:

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure. Design and run GCP environments for games and backend services. Guide decisions on APIs, databases, and caching. Manage hosting and content delivery, and plan for traffic growth, capacity, and cloud costs.
• Automate infrastructure and workflows. Use Terraform, scripts, and reusable workflows to make environment setup, configuration, and maintenance consistent and repeatable. Apply version control and code review to reduce risk and manual effort.
• Own build and deployment pipelines. Manage CI/CD pipelines, build servers, and deployment infrastructure for games and services. Work with studios on build and packaging needs, with automated checks, secure credentials, release approvals, and rollback procedures.
• Own monitoring, alerting, and automated reporting. Define actionable alerts, routing, and escalation for production infrastructure. Automate reporting on availability, performance, incidents, capacity, and cost for studios and leadership. Work with game teams to test capacity before launches and major updates, and agree who monitors and responds.
• Improve service reliability. Troubleshoot incidents with studios, internal teams, and service providers. Document response procedures and follow fixes through to completion. Participate in agreed on-call and