Lead Game Services Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $169.1k - $250.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎮 Gaming

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Gaming • B2C

2K is a video game development and publishing company founded in 2005. It specializes in creating interactive entertainment for various platforms, including video game consoles, personal computers, and mobile devices. 2K is known for its portfolio of AAA titles and popular franchises, such as NBA®️ 2K, BioShock®️, Borderlands®️, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization®️, and XCOM®️, along with WWE®️ 2K and PGA TOUR®️ 2K. The company operates multiple development studios, including Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, and Hangar 13, and is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

📋 Description

• Lead the team building and running studio-hosted services • Manage backend engineers in US and EU studios • Own service and infrastructure architecture, including service boundaries, data models, APIs and deployment topology • Write code alongside the team and review technical designs and implementations • Lead team planning, backlog maintenance, estimation and sprint prioritization • Set engineering standards for code review, testing, documentation and on-call readiness • Align backend roadmap with studio release schedules • Diagnose, fix and deploy backend hotfixes • Maintain continuous integration pipelines and deployment automation • Own monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks and incident reporting • Run the backend on-call rotation and respond to or escalate incidents • Load-test services, fix performance bottlenecks and optimize service costs • Implement and test failover and disaster recovery • Integrate proprietary services with 2K and external platform services • Debug cross-service issues with external engineering partners • Report to the Director - Online Services

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of server-side development experience, complemented by a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience • Has led or managed backend engineers on a shipped AAA title, preferably a live-service or competitive multiplayer game • Fluent in C# and proficient in Python or Go • Strong grasp of distributed systems, concurrency and scalable service design • Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or DocumentDB, and Redis • Has deployed and operated production services on AWS • Kubernetes, Helm and microservice architectures • Profiling and optimizing distributed systems, including database queries and service calls • Real-time messaging such as MQTT and API gateways • C++ and Unreal Engine • Online game systems such as matchmaking, social, progression, commerce and telemetry • Experience running a live title, including incident response, capacity planning and cost management • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus and/or equity awards • Medical benefits • Financial benefits • Other benefits as applicable • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities

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