Staff Systems Engineer, Testing & Reliability (Remote)

thatgamecompany, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 163,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Holidays and Winter Break

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Pet Insurance

Wellness stipend

Work from home stipend

401K matching

Mental health resources

Discount portal

Diversity & inclusion programs

Professional development support

Job summary

Thatgamecompany, Inc. is seeking a Staff Systems Software Engineer to design and own the studio's test automation framework and metrics. You will build tooling for QA, performance analysis, and scalable back-end systems used by Cloud, Gameplay, and Cross-Platform teams.

You will influence technical direction at studio level, mentor engineers, and drive reliable pre-production testing, deployment, and disaster-recovery exercises across on-prem and cloud-like environments.

Qualifications

• Languages: Python, Golang, C/C++, Jenkins Groovy; Linux shell scripting; fluent English
• Testing & Quality Systems: Test framework design; load/stress tooling (k6, Locust, Gatling, JMeter); fault injection/chaos engineering; coverage instrumentation; flake detection
• Performance & Analysis: CPU/GPU/memory/I/O profiling; statistical analysis of noisy benchmarks; regression detection and commit attribution; observability
• Build & CI at Scale: Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD; Make/CMake; GCC/Clang; distributed build systems/caching; Git/GitLab and Perforce (large-binary workflows)
• Infrastructure: Linux/macOS administration; bare-metal/on-prem cluster ops; Docker/Podman; Kubernetes; Terraform/OpenTofu; hardware capacity planning
• Systems Fundamentals: Distributed systems failure modes; TCP/IP and UDP; resilience patterns; disaster recovery planning and execution

Responsibilities

• Prove correctness and quality before players find the bugs
• Find the breaking point on purpose
• Prove quality on real devices
• Own the infrastructure engineers build on
• Make it land
• We expect you to be a passionate gamer who puts players first

Skills

Python

Golang

C/C++

Jenkins Groovy

Linux shell scripting

fluent English

Test framework design

load/stress tooling

fault injection/chaos engineering

Regression analysis

Performance analysis

CI/CD

Distributed build systems

Docker/Podman

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

Disaster recovery

Linux/macOS admin

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Make/CMake

GCC/Clang

Git/GitLab

Perforce

Job description

Thatgamecompany, Inc. is seeking a Staff Systems Software Engineer to design and own the studio's test automation framework and metrics. You will build tooling for QA, performance analysis, and scalable back-end systems used by Cloud, Gameplay, and Cross-Platform teams.

You will influence technical direction at studio level, mentor engineers, and drive reliable pre-production testing, deployment, and disaster-recovery exercises across on-prem and cloud-like environments.