Lead Platform Engineer - Infrastructure & Backend

Tripledot Studios

7d•$150,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

Lion Studios, part of Tripledot Studios, is seeking an Infrastructure & Backend Engineering Lead to own and evolve the technical foundation supporting its games, analytics systems, internal products, and web services. The position combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering across AWS, data infrastructure, backend and game services, and web infrastructure. The lead will set technical direction, lead the team, and collaborate with engineers to design, build, and improve systems that support Lion and its games, keeping critical systems reliable while identifying and driving technical improvements. The role owns cloud infrastructure and shared services, analytics infrastructure including Snowflake and high-volume game event pipelines, and shared backend services, APIs, game servers, and live game infrastructure. It also includes building a team roadmap, contributing to architecture and implementation, supporting integrations across studios and internal teams, and taking projects through rollout, monitoring, feedback, adoption, and iteration. The position is open to remote candidates located in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, or Washington. Candidates based in Dallas follow a hybrid arrangement with the Dallas studio, working in the office four days per week, Monday through Thursday. The anticipated base salary range is $150,000–$185,000. This is an existing vacancy.

Requirements

Strong software engineering background, including experience building and operating production systems.
Strong experience with cloud infrastructure; AWS is preferred.
Strong backend and distributed systems experience.
Experience with modern data infrastructure and high-volume data pipelines.
Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and cloud cost management.
Experience leading engineers and owning technical roadmaps.
Comfort working across code, infrastructure, architecture, and production systems.
Strong technical judgment and ability to make decisions across multiple engineering areas.
Strong ownership and follow-through from initial idea through launch, measurement, feedback, and iteration.
Ability to identify opportunities and drive improvements when requirements are not fully defined.
Strong communication skills and ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice To Haves

Snowflake experience is strongly preferred.
Experience in mobile gaming, consumer mobile products, AdTech, or another high-scale environment.
Experience operating live game services or other highly available backend systems.
Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka or similar event infrastructure, and modern observability tools.
Experience with Snowflake optimization and large-scale analytics workloads.
Experience working with distributed teams and external development studios.

Responsibilities

Own AWS infrastructure, architecture, reliability, monitoring, security, and cost optimization.
Drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices.
Design and implement improvements to cloud infrastructure and shared services.
Support infrastructure and hosting for internal products, websites, APIs, and other services.
Own the infrastructure behind the analytics stack, including Snowflake and high-volume game event pipelines.
Improve the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost of data infrastructure.
Work with Analytics and BI to evolve the underlying data platform and implement changes as data and analytics needs grow.
Own shared backend services, APIs, game servers, and live game infrastructure.
Design and build backend systems with the team, and help define architecture and hosting strategies for services used across games.
Support studios and internal teams integrating with Lion’s backend systems.
Build and own the team’s technical roadmap.
Lead engineers and contribute to architecture, implementation, code reviews, and complex technical problem-solving.
Identify technical problems and opportunities and drive improvements forward.
Translate ambiguous business and technical problems into clear options, recommendations, and execution plans.
Build relationships across Engineering, Analytics, Product, QA, Solutions, and partner studios.
Own projects through rollout and beyond, including monitoring, feedback, adoption, and iteration.