Senior Network Platform Engineer
About The Position
Turtle Rock is seeking a Senior Network Platform Engineer to build and operate online infrastructure for its next AAA title. The role owns backend systems supporting large-scale online multiplayer games and helps shape technical direction, establish operational procedures, troubleshoot complex production issues, and mentor less experienced engineers. It is a hands-on engineering position focused on infrastructure and distributed-systems problems and the technology behind a live AAA game. The position reports to the Networking Lead. Turtle Rock supports flexible work arrangements, including in-studio, hybrid, and fully remote work throughout North America.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend, network, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems.
- Experience with backend languages and tools; Kotlin is primarily used, but JVM experience is not required.
- Proven experience with traditional RDBMS databases, persistent NoSQL databases, and caching layers.
- Solid fundamentals in concurrency, asynchronous techniques, and consistency tradeoffs.
- Comfort working in a Linux environment at the command line.
- A security mindset across network, code, and database layers.
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals, including DNS, routing, packet capture, and analysis.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
Nice To Haves
- Previous game industry experience.
- Experience working 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 leading live-operations documentation, including runbooks, incident procedures, and post-mortems.
- Experience designing online products for global regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and operate large-scale distributed systems.
- Own the full shipping lifecycle of services, including building and operating them in production.
- Integrate external APIs and services, including cloud providers and platform first parties.
- Analyze and mitigate platform costs from initial design through continuous optimization.
- Help guide engineering standards, operational practices, and documentation for internal teams and external partners.
- Work directly with stakeholders in other departments to deliver new features.
- Mentor and support junior engineers.
- Participate in on-call or live-service support as needed.
- Play the game.
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families.
- Retirement Savings Plan matching.
- Career Improvement Plan.
- Flexible work arrangements, including in-house, hybrid, and remote.
- Generous time off policy.
- In-person and virtual company events.
- Fully stocked kitchen and sponsored food trucks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
