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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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