Backend Engineer (Infrastructure)

Responsibilities

• ▹Develop new features for the game server allocation services
• ▹Maintain core libraries used by all backend teams in the organization
• ▹Maintain and evolve infrastructure builds and CI tooling
• ▹Architect and harden new services for production, focusing on observability and on-call readiness
• ▹Automate workflows to ensure services remain easy to deploy and scale
• ▹Collaborate and communicate clearly with cross-team stakeholders

Requirements

• ▹Scaled Go backend systems running on Kubernetes
• ▹A strong background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and a passion for keeping 24/7 services running smoothly
• ▹Experience managing Kubernetes on-premises and a focus on performance optimization
• ▹Worked with hybrid networking and service meshes

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salaries
• ▹A generous profit-sharing program

About the company

Embark Studios' infrastructure team has end-to-end responsibilities ranging from physical data center hardware to global-scale cloud services. The team builds a hybrid (on-prem/GCP) service using Go, Rust, C++/Unreal, with Kubernetes, Agones, Quilkin, Talos/Omni, Istio infrastructure, and Terraform and Bazel tooling.