Sr Software Development Engineer

Hasbro•Renton, WA

About The Position

Wizards of the Coast is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Services Ecosystem team supporting Magic: The Gathering Arena, a live-service game. The team maintains and modernizes the platform so it remains fast, stable, observable, and cost-efficient. The role focuses on distributed systems, cloud-native tooling, Kubernetes, and improving the services and internal developer experience that support the game. The engineer will design and implement reliable, scalable solutions in C#/.NET and Kubernetes, improve telemetry and dashboards, and support the complete live-product development lifecycle. The role also involves identifying high-impact problems, proposing roadmap work, resolving production issues, and collaborating with teammates and partners. The compensation range is $133,200–$212,100 USD; employees may also be eligible for annual and long-term incentives.

Requirements

At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building and supporting a live-service product.
Hands-on experience running scalable workloads on Kubernetes in the cloud.
Experience with distributed message-driven architectures such as RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka, or similar.
Infrastructure-as-code experience; Terraform is preferred.
Practical observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar.
A track record of debugging complex issues across service boundaries using logs and metrics.
Comfort working on multiple tasks, self-starting, interest in influencing the roadmap, and empathy for past decisions while modernizing systems.

Nice To Haves

FinOps experience with OpenCost or Kubecost.
GitOps experience with Helm or ArgoCD.
Service coordination experience with etcd or ZooKeeper.
Hands-on experience with agentic coding and workflows assisted by tools such as Claude or ChatGPT.

Responsibilities

Design and implement reliable, scalable solutions in C#/.NET and Kubernetes for Magic: The Gathering Arena, maximizing uptime and minimizing cost.
Improve telemetry signal-to-noise using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or related tools, and create dashboards that help answer operational questions.
Own service developer experience, tooling, and quality-of-life improvements for internal customers.
Identify high-business-impact problems, write proposals, help build the roadmap, and advocate for proposed work with the team and partners.
Support the end-to-end live product development lifecycle and resolve technical problems in production.
Provide technical expertise in cloud-native solutions and continue expanding knowledge in related fields.
Contribute to the team's quality, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Debug complex issues across service boundaries using logs, metrics, and investigation.