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Staff Platform Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Own the strategic roadmap and architectural delivery of the internal developer portal and AI- and LLM-backed agentic platform workflows.
  • Lead organization-wide platform engineering strategy and advise engineering leads on cloud-native Kubernetes and AI platform architecture.
  • Drive the internal developer platform as a product through self-service capabilities, golden paths, automation, and improved developer experience.
  • Guide the development of modular Terraform libraries for standardized provisioning across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Define standards for Kubernetes container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and service discovery.
  • Provide Tier 2 support, root-cause analysis, and architectural remediation for complex platform issues.
  • Establish incident management, escalation, operational guardrails, SLA/SLO frameworks, post-mortems, and rotational on-call practices.
  • Mentor senior technical talent and influence engineering teams across distributed studios.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering, including at least 4+ years focused on internal developer platforms or Kubernetes-based tooling.
  • Expert knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, cloud-native ecosystems, operators, controllers, and CRDs.
  • Expert experience managing highly elastic, mission-critical workloads on AWS and/or GCP.
  • Foundational knowledge or hands-on experience integrating LLMs and AI agents into engineering workflows, APIs, or platform tools.
  • Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or Rust for automation tools, Kubernetes operators, and developer-facing APIs.
  • Strong experience with Git, configuration management, CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, and Terraform.
  • Experience architecting multi-region, highly available systems for global user bases.
  • Ability to influence without authority across distributed teams and time zones and maintain an internal developer customer focus.
  • Willingness and ability to participate in a 24/7 rotational on-call schedule.
  • Prior gaming industry experience supporting large-scale, high-concurrency multiplayer backend services is a bonus.
  • Experience progressing engineering organizations from human-in-the-loop to more autonomous agentic workflows is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
  • Participation in a 24/7 rotational on-call schedule is part of the role.
  • 2K is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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