Senior Network Platform Engineer
Turtle Rock Studios14 days ago
Base Salary
$136k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and operate large-scale distributed systems.
- Own the complete service shipping lifecycle, including production operations.
- Integrate external APIs, cloud providers, and platform first-party services.
- Analyze and continuously optimize platform costs.
- Guide engineering standards, operational practices, and documentation.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to deliver new features.
- Mentor and support junior engineers.
- Participate in on-call and live-service support as needed.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend, network, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems.
- Experience with backend languages and tools; the team primarily uses Kotlin, but JVM experience is not required.
- Experience with traditional relational databases, persistent NoSQL databases, and caching layers.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous techniques, and consistency tradeoffs.
- Comfort working in a Linux command-line environment.
- Security awareness across network, code, and database layers.
- Familiarity with DNS, routing, packet capture, and network analysis.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Game development experience is preferred.
- Experience with Xbox Live, Valve Steamworks, or PlayStation Network is preferred.
- Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is preferred.
- Experience supporting live-service games or other live online platforms is preferred.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment systems, live-operations documentation, runbooks, incident procedures, and post-mortems is preferred.
- Experience designing online products for global regulatory requirements is preferred.
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- Retirement savings plan matching.
- Career Improvement Plan.
- Flexible in-house, hybrid, and remote work arrangements throughout North America.
- Generous time off policy.
- In-person and virtual company events.
- Fully stocked kitchen and sponsored food trucks.
About Turtle Rock Studios
Turtle Rock Studios is a game developer building cooperative shooters and VR titles for PC and console players. The studio created or co-created franchises such as Left 4 Dead, Evolve, and Back 4 Blood, and operates live-service games with ongoing content updates. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Irvine, California, it is owned by Tencent and partners with major publishers on AAA projects.