Staff Systems Software Engineer
thatgamecompany7 hours ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$163k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and own the studio’s functional test automation framework, coverage instrumentation, regression analysis tooling, and test-suite reliability and speed improvements.
- Design load, stress, chaos, and disaster recovery testing systems, including realistic synthetic traffic, fault injection, RTO/RPO measurement, and regression tests.
- Automate app-quality testing across real devices and own device-lab orchestration and certification matrices.
- Build and operate on-premise distributed build and GPU clusters, including scheduling, caching, artifacts, utilization, and capacity planning.
- Design cross-platform developer tools, including AI-assisted agents, skills, and MCP servers, for Cloud, Backend, and Client Engineering.
- Define and publish developer-velocity and quality metrics such as build time, test cycle time, flake rate, escaped defect rate, and MTTR.
- Drive adoption across teams, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, document systems, and set studio-wide technical direction.
Requirements
- Required programming and scripting skills include Python, Golang, C/C++, Jenkins Groovy, and Linux shell scripting.
- Experience designing test frameworks and building load/stress tooling, fault-injection and chaos systems, coverage instrumentation, and flake detection.
- Experience with CPU/GPU/memory/I/O profiling, statistical analysis of noisy benchmarks, regression detection, commit attribution, and observability.
- Experience with Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD, Make or CMake, GCC or Clang, distributed build systems and caching, Git/GitLab, and Perforce.
- Experience administering Linux and macOS, operating bare-metal or on-premise clusters, using Docker or Podman, Kubernetes, Terraform or OpenTofu, and performing hardware capacity planning.
- Knowledge of distributed-systems failure modes, TCP/IP and UDP, resilience patterns, and disaster recovery planning and execution.
- Passion for gaming, staff-level technical direction, influence without authority, clear communication across distributed teams, and a focus on preventing problems.
- Preferred qualifications include mobile device-farm operation; Android/iOS build and profiling toolchains; GPU cluster scheduling with Slurm, Kubernetes device plugins, or MIG; game-engine internals and engine-level test automation; deterministic simulation/replay testing; live-service game or equivalent SaaS/PaaS/XaaS experience; Windows administration; Ansible; TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, or Swift; and hybrid/multi-cloud management.
Benefits
- Paid time off, holidays, and a two-week winter break.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents beginning on the first day, with no waiting period.
- Pet insurance, compassionate leave, a pre-tax wellness stipend, and a pre-tax work-from-home stipend.
- 401(k) savings plan with company match.
- Mental-health resources including Headspace membership and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Discount portal, inclusive and diversity initiatives such as Grow Together, and support for professional development.
- Remote role available in the United States and Canada.
Tech Stack
About thatgamecompany
thatgamecompany develops artistically driven video games for console and mobile players, including Flow, Flower, Journey, and Sky: Children of the Light. The studio operates a premium games business alongside Sky, a live, free-to-play social adventure supported by in-game purchases and ongoing content updates. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, it is a privately held independent developer with titles released on PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.