Staff Systems Software Engineer

🔥 8 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $162.5k - $219k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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thatgamecompany

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

Gaming • Media

thatgamecompany is a developer and publisher of video games known for creating unique, artistic, and emotionally engaging games. The company has released several popular titles, including 'Sky: Children of the Light', which has won numerous awards, including at Gamescom, and set a Guinness World Record. thatgamecompany is recognized for its emphasis on creating games that offer serene and meaningful experiences, with a focus on cooperative, multiplayer gameplay. The company continues to evolve and connect with its community through various platforms, offering a blend of breathtaking visuals and immersive storytelling.

📋 Description

• Build and own the studio's functional test automation framework, including runner, fixtures, game-state harness, reporting, and coverage instrumentation • Build regression analysis tooling that distinguishes real regressions from noise and attributes them automatically to commits • Improve test-suite speed and trust through flake detection, quarantine, parallel sharding, and deterministic replay • Design load/stress testing systems that model realistic player behavior and generate launch-scale synthetic traffic against pre-production • Build chaos-testing capabilities using fault injection, latency/partition simulation, and dependency-failure testing • Run disaster-recovery exercises, measure actual RTO/RPO against targets, and convert findings into regression tests • Build app-quality testing automation for frame time, memory, thermal performance, battery, and cold-start metrics gated in CI • Own device compatibility lab orchestration and certification matrix • Build and operate on-premise build clusters and GPU clusters • Design cross-platform developer tools, including AI-assisted tooling, agents, skills, and MCP servers • Define, instrument, and publish developer velocity and quality metrics • Use metrics to prioritize the roadmap • Drive adoption across teams that do not report to the role • Mentor engineers in testing strategy, performance analysis, and systems thinking • Raise engineering standards through code review, documentation, and reduced bus factor

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a passionate gamer who puts players first • Staff-level experience: set technical direction studio-wide and influence without authority • Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly across distributed teams • Python, Golang, C/C++, Jenkins Groovy, and Linux shell scripting • Fluent English • Test framework design • Load/stress tooling with k6, Locust, Gatling, or JMeter • Fault injection/chaos engineering • Coverage instrumentation and flake detection • CPU/GPU/memory/I/O profiling • Statistical analysis of noisy benchmarks • Regression detection and commit attribution • Observability • Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD; Make/CMake; GCC/Clang • Distributed build systems/caching • Git/GitLab and Perforce • Linux/macOS administration • Bare-metal/on-prem cluster operations • Docker/Podman; Kubernetes; Terraform/OpenTofu • Hardware capacity planning • Distributed systems failure modes; TCP/IP and UDP • Resilience patterns • Disaster recovery planning and execution • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; visa sponsorship is unavailable • Must be able to work core meeting hours of 10 am to 5 pm Pacific time • Preferred: mobile device farm operation, Android/iOS build and profiling toolchains, GPU cluster scheduling, game engine internals, deterministic simulation/replay testing, live service game experience, Windows administration, Ansible, TypeScript/Java/Kotlin/Swift, and hybrid/multi-cloud management

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off, Holidays and Two Weeks Winter Break • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents starting on the first day • Pet Insurance • Compassionate leave for family care • Pre-tax wellness stipend • Pre-tax work from home stipend • 401K savings plan with company match • Mental health resources including Headspace membership and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Discount portal for everyday goods and services • Employee inclusive and diversity initiatives such as Grow Together • Support for personal professional development • Annual discretionary bonus opportunity