Senior Game Services Engineering Lead

🕒 April 2

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $217k - $325k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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teamLFG

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gaming • B2C

teamLFG is a PlayStation Studios-affiliated game development studio based in Bellevue, WA that builds immersive, action-driven social multiplayer games designed to foster friendship, community, and belonging. The team combines industry veterans (with credits on Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, Rec Room) and newer creators working across the U. S. and Canada to deliver highly polished moment-to-moment gameplay and long-term multiplayer engagement.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain production-quality backend game services • Directly manage and lead several engineers, providing support, technical mentorship, constructive feedback, and career development coaching • Collaborate daily with a cross-disciplinary team to design and build the services-driven features for the game (including sessions, matchmaking, and progression) • Effectively write clear, concise, and accurate technical documentation and email communication, with the ability to summarize complex topics and achieve alignment across multiple teams • Calmly deal with production incidents, participating in an on-call rotation after launch

🎯 Requirements

• Production experience designing and building backend game services • Ability to communicate with customers of different technical and non-technical backgrounds to help them navigate technology and achieve their goals • Experience leading (direct management, mentoring, or guiding) engineers • Ability to diagnose complex system failures using logging and metrics • Ability to write, debug, and maintain code in Rust • Embrace a “we” culture in addition to being an outstanding collaborator and communicator • Experience with “games as a service” online game development (nice-to-have) • Ability to write, debug, and maintain code in C++ (nice-to-have) • Working knowledge of Docker, Git, and Linux (including shell scripting and system configuration) (nice-to-have)

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • matching 401(k) • paid time off • wellness program • coveted employee discounts for Sony products