Expert Online Services Software Engineer

Posted: 2026-03-05

- Architect, build, and own large-scale backend services that power our online features, from initial design through launch and live operations

- Set technical direction and engineering standards for our online services, influencing architecture and best practices across teams

- Lead technical planning for major online initiatives, producing technical designs, work breakdowns, and dependency analysis that enable execution across multiple engineers and teams

- Provide input on infrastructure cost modeling and capacity planning, such as projecting cloud costs from expected player populations

- Partner with design, art, production, and engineering leadership to shape online features, clearly articulating trade-offs between player experience, cost, and schedule

- Set the bar for clean, performant, and well-tested code through hands-on development and code and design reviews

- Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, contribute to hiring, and help shape our engineering culture

- Collaborate with publisher technology teams, platform partners, and external vendors on online infrastructure and services

What Will Make You A Great Fit

- 7+ years building backend services and online systems for games

- Expert proficiency in Go building production backend services

- Shipped and scaled live online services for millions of players

- Deep expertise in distributed, event-driven systems and networking protocols

- Proven technical leadership driving architecture and alignment across teams

- Production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)

- Strong observability mindset, with hands-on experience building monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing for production systems

- Solid grasp of CI/CD best practices, with experience designing pipelines that enable zero-downtime deployments

- Excellent communicator, comfortable navigating a growing organization

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Beneficial Qualifications

- Experience with Unreal Engine 5 (or similar engines), particularly dedicated server and client networking code in C++