Backend Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Aug 21, 2026
This job expires in: 24 days
Job Summary
Building core orchestration systems for game studios running dedicated multiplayer servers, the full-time Backend Engineer will work remotely on server allocation, fleet management, infrastructure orchestration, and developer-facing APIs.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and manage multiplayer server orchestration, allocation, scheduling, and lifecycle systems
- Design and implement fleet management, autoscaling, and health recovery systems
- Write Infrastructure-as-Code transformers and ensure reliable distributed systems operation
Required qualifications
- Strong professional experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems
- Experience integrating multiplayer infrastructure and supporting a multiplayer game through production launch
- Solid understanding of dedicated game servers, matchmaking, and multiplayer networking
- Proficiency in Linux, networking, Docker, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
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