Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for cloud gaming infrastructure that includes the Game OS, cloud gaming software stack, telemetry, control plane, and transport.

• Lead and expand the engineering organization tasked with building and operating the infrastructure, focusing on hiring technical leaders and individual contributors.

• Collaborate with hardware, OS, encoding, capacity planning, and SRE/Ops teams to create a reliable end-to-end platform.

• Propel technical and economic innovation to make cloud gaming feasible at scale.

• Act as the main technical liaison between Infrastructure, Games Platform, and Games Studio.

• Represent the infrastructure's capabilities and limitations in discussions regarding product and studio planning.

• Work with peer leaders across Infrastructure and Games Platform teams to ensure coherent and integrated systems.

• Establish technical direction and quality standards in a field lacking an established industry playbook.

• Make technical decisions in the absence of proven methodologies.

• Report on infrastructure health, costs, and scaling risks to senior leadership.

• Transform business objectives, such as member growth, engagement, and unit economics, into infrastructure priorities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale distributed systems engineering teams, ideally encompassing software, hardware, and network/transport layers.

• In-depth technical knowledge in one or more areas: cloud infrastructure at scale, real-time/low-latency media delivery, game development, control planes.

• Experience managing infrastructure with significant capital investment, including hardware fleets and data center capacity, and being accountable for its economics.

• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous and emerging fields without established best practices, making sound technical decisions under uncertainty.

• Strong history of cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data Science, and related Engineering organizations.

• Ability to influence without direct authority across dotted-line and peer relationships.

• Experience in managing and developing engineering managers and senior individual contributors.

• Judicious in growing a team while enhancing individual capabilities with AI tools.

• Excellent communication skills for conveying complex infrastructure trade-offs to technical colleagues and senior/executive stakeholders.

• Previous experience in console gaming, cloud gaming, game streaming, or interactive real-time media is preferred.

• Background in a company that has developed a large-scale gaming or media-streaming platform is preferred.

• Experience establishing or significantly scaling a new platform or product line is preferred.

• Familiarity with CDN or edge infrastructure economics, capacity planning, and fleet-level cost optimization is preferred.

• Experience linking infrastructure investment choices to broader strategic growth initiatives is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Plans

• Mental Health support

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match

• Stock Option Program

• Disability Programs

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

• Family-forming benefits

• Life and Serious Injury Benefits

• Paid leave of absence programs

• Full-time hourly employees earn 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick leave.

• Full-time salaried employees have immediate access to flexible time off.