Senior Network Platform Engineer (Game Development)

Location: Flexible in-studio, hybrid, or fully remote arrangements throughout North America; company based in Orange County, California.

Salary: Estimated base pay of $136,000–$170,000 USD annually.

Company

Develops AAA games and online multiplayer experiences.

What you will do

• Design, build, maintain, and operate large-scale distributed systems supporting an online multiplayer AAA title.
• Own the full service shipping lifecycle, including production operations and live-service support.
• Integrate external APIs and services from cloud providers and platform first parties.
• Analyze and continuously optimize platform costs.
• Guide engineering standards, operational practices, and documentation for internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and support feature delivery.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend, network, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems.
• Backend development experience; Kotlin is primarily used, but JVM experience is not required.
• Experience with traditional relational databases, persistent NoSQL databases, and caching layers.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, asynchronous techniques, and consistency tradeoffs.
• Comfort working in Linux at the command line.
• Security mindset across network, code, and database layers.
• Familiarity with DNS, routing, packet capture, and network analysis.
• Strong communication and collaborative working skills.

Nice to have

• Previous game development experience.
• Experience with Xbox Live, Valve Steamworks, or PlayStation Network.
• Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience supporting live-service games or other live online platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment systems.
• Experience documenting live operations through runbooks, incident procedures, and post-mortems.
• Experience designing online products for global regulatory requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment with creative freedom and opportunities to contribute and grow.
• Flexible in-studio, hybrid, and remote work arrangements throughout North America.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Retirement savings plan matching, career improvement plan, and generous time off.
• In-person and virtual company events, stocked kitchen, and sponsored food trucks.