// Open Role at Turtle Rock Studios
Join Turtle Rock Studios as a Senior Network Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the online infrastructure for a next-gen AAA multiplayer title. Take ownership of backend systems and mentor junior engineers in a flexible work environment.
At Turtle Rock, we make the games we want to play. We're dedicated to providing a collaborative environment where our team members feel empowered with the creative freedom to contribute and grow. While we are based in Orange County, CA, we support flexible work arrangements ranging from in-studio, hybrid, to fully remote throughout North America. Join our award-winning game development team and help create our next hit title.
We are looking for a Senior Network Platform Engineer to join our team and help build and operate the online infrastructure behind our next hit AAA title. In this role, you’ll take ownership of backend systems that support large-scale online multiplayer games. You’ll help shape technical direction, set operational procedures, troubleshoot complex production issues, and mentor engineers earlier in their careers.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving difficult infrastructure and distributed-systems problems and wants to have a meaningful impact on the technology behind a live AAA game. This position will report to the Networking Lead.
Requirements
Some of the benefits and perks our employees get to enjoy, include:
The estimated base pay range for this role is: $136,000 - $170,000 USD
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend, network, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems - Proven database experience: traditional RDBMS, persistent NoSQL, and caching layers - Solid fundamentals in concurrency, asynchronous techniques, and consistency tradeoffs - Comfortable working in a Linux environment at the command line - Security mindset at all layers: network, code, database - Familiarity with underlying networking stack: DNS, routing, packet capture and analysis - Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset