Principal Engineer – Systems Architecture, Scalability

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November 20

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Xsolla

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Gaming • eCommerce • SaaS

Xsolla is a company specializing in game commerce solutions. It provides tools and services that empower video game developers to monetize, distribute, and fund their games, helping them to increase revenue at any stage of development. Xsolla offers a wide range of solutions such as customizable web shops, payment processing, fraud prevention, and social packages to enhance player engagement. With over 19 years of experience in the video game industry, Xsolla collaborates with developers and publishers globally to manage compliance, taxes, and operational complexities, allowing them to focus on connecting with their players. Their services are designed to work with popular game development platforms like Unity, Unreal, and Cocos Creator, supporting a wide array of local payment methods worldwide.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

🎮 Gaming

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Lead large-scale architectural refactoring initiatives — breaking down complex monoliths into modular, decoupled services with clear ownership boundaries and well-defined APIs • Define and evolve system architecture principles that support scalability, high availability, and ease of deployment across multi-region environments • Design strategies for multi-tenancy, data isolation, and schema evolution to support Xsolla’s growing portfolio of products and clients • Provide technical leadership across multiple teams — advising on system decomposition, domain-driven design, and dependency management • Establish and guide database architecture strategy, including data partitioning, replication, caching, and observability practices for large-scale distributed systems • Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure systems are cloud-native, fault-tolerant, and horizontally scalable • Act as a trusted architectural advisor for engineering leadership, helping prioritize modernization efforts and technical debt reduction initiatives • Conduct architecture reviews, ensuring that performance, maintainability, and scalability are baked into every stage of the software lifecycle • Mentor senior engineers and architects, fostering a culture of design excellence and long-term technical vision

🎯 Requirements

• Experience transitioning monolithic enterprise systems to microservices or service mesh architectures • Familiarity with domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS, and event sourcing principles • Prior work in multi-product platforms where shared infrastructure and modular boundaries are key • Knowledge of data federation, API gateway patterns, and global scaling strategies • Background in technical leadership for distributed or hybrid engineering organizations

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans • Disability and life insurance • Chiropractic coverage • Flexible spending accounts • Fully vested 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% company match from the start date • Unlimited Flexible Time Off • 14 paid holidays each year • In-house training, independent study, conference attendance, and higher education opportunities