Staff Systems Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop and manage the studio's functional test automation framework, encompassing the runner, fixtures, game-state harness, reporting, and coverage instrumentation.

• Create regression analysis tools that differentiate genuine regressions from noise and automatically attribute them to commits.

• Enhance the speed and reliability of the test suite through flake detection, quarantine, parallel sharding, and deterministic replay.

• Design load and stress testing systems that simulate realistic player behavior and generate launch-scale synthetic traffic prior to production.

• Establish chaos-testing capabilities utilizing fault injection, latency and partition simulation, and dependency-failure testing.

• Conduct disaster recovery exercises, assess actual RTO/RPO against targets, and translate findings into regression tests.

• Develop app-quality testing automation for metrics such as frame time, memory, thermal performance, battery life, and cold-start performance, integrated into CI.

• Oversee device compatibility lab orchestration and the certification matrix.

• Build and manage on-premise build and GPU clusters.

• Design cross-platform developer tools, including AI-assisted tools, agents, skills, and MCP servers.

• Define, instrument, and publish metrics related to developer velocity and quality.

• Leverage metrics to inform and prioritize the roadmap.

• Promote adoption across teams that do not report directly to this role.

• Mentor engineers in testing strategies, performance analysis, and systems thinking.

• Elevate engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, and minimizing the bus factor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be an enthusiastic gamer who prioritizes player experience.

• Staff-level experience required: capable of setting technical direction across the studio and influencing without direct authority.

• Effective communication of trade-offs across distributed teams.

• Proficiency in Python, Golang, C/C++, Jenkins Groovy, and Linux shell scripting.

• Fluent in English.

• Experience in test framework design.

• Familiarity with load/stress testing tools such as k6, Locust, Gatling, or JMeter.

• Knowledge of fault injection and chaos engineering practices.

• Experience in coverage instrumentation and flake detection.

• Proficient in CPU/GPU/memory/I/O profiling.

• Statistical analysis skills for noisy benchmarks.

• Experience in regression detection and commit attribution.

• Understanding of observability principles.

• Familiarity with Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD; Make/CMake; GCC/Clang.

• Experience with distributed build systems and caching.

• Proficient in Git/GitLab and Perforce.

• Experience in Linux/macOS administration.

• Knowledge of bare-metal and on-prem cluster operations.

• Familiarity with Docker/Podman; Kubernetes; Terraform/OpenTofu.

• Skills in hardware capacity planning.

• Understanding of distributed systems failure modes; TCP/IP and UDP.

• Knowledge of resilience patterns.

• Experience in disaster recovery planning and execution.

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; visa sponsorship is not available.

• Must be available to work during core meeting hours from 10 am to 5 pm Pacific Time.

• Preferred experience includes mobile device farm operation, Android/iOS build and profiling toolchains, GPU cluster scheduling, game engine internals, deterministic simulation/replay testing, live service game experience, Windows administration, Ansible, TypeScript/Java/Kotlin/Swift, and hybrid/multi-cloud management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off, holidays, and a two-week winter break.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents starting on the first day.

• Pet insurance.

• Compassionate leave for family caregiving.

• Pre-tax wellness stipend.

• Pre-tax work-from-home stipend.

• 401K savings plan with company match.

• Mental health resources, including a Headspace membership and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Discount portal for everyday goods and services.

• Employee inclusion and diversity initiatives such as Grow Together.

• Support for personal professional development.

• Annual discretionary bonus opportunity.