5 hours ago
Austin, TX, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop robust, scalable, and high-performance backend microservices and APIs.
- Own the maintenance and evolution of key service domains, ensuring reliability, performance, and alignment with technical strategy.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and game teams to translate requirements into technical deliverables and milestones.
- Optimize infrastructure and runtime costs while maintaining a seamless player experience.
- Drive refactoring, workflow automation, and legacy-system modernization to reduce technical debt.
Requirements
- Require 3–8+ years of experience designing and building backend systems and microservices with Go or Java.
- Require knowledge of HTTP, gRPC, API design, relational and NoSQL databases, schema design, and query optimization.
- Require experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, distributed systems, and microservice design patterns.
- Require familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability, authentication, authorization, secure coding, and compliance frameworks.
- Require a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Prefer experience with Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, AWS, GCP, online service platforms, or backend systems for AAA games.
- Value gaming passion, product-oriented problem solving, ownership, communication, and collaboration.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application, interview, and employment process.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendGaming
About 2K
2K develops and publishes video games for console, PC, and mobile players, selling premium titles and live-service content across major franchises. Its portfolio includes NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Sid Meier’s Civilization, XCOM, WWE 2K, and PGA TOUR 2K, built by in-house and partner studios. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Novato, California, 2K is a publishing label wholly owned by Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO).