Senior Software Engineer

Description

The company is a video game publisher headquartered in Novato, California, and a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Founded in 2005, it publishes games across sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual and family entertainment, developed by a group of studios including Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, HB Studios and 2K SportsLab.

The publisher's catalogue includes large franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Mafia, Sid Meier's Civilization, XCOM, WWE 2K, WWE SuperCard, TopSpin 2K25 and PGA TOUR 2K, and it keeps growing through its global strategy of building and acquiring studios.

The team is made up of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists and producers. Candidates who meet only some of the listed requirements are still encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Build backend microservices and APIs that are reliable, scalable and fast.
• Take ownership of key service domains, keeping them reliable and fast while fitting the long-term technical direction.
• Work with product managers, designers and game teams to turn complicated requirements into clear technical tasks and milestones.
• Lower infrastructure and runtime spend without sacrificing a smooth experience for players or day-to-day operational efficiency.
• Steadily pay down technical debt by refactoring, automating workflows and modernising legacy systems.

Requirements

• Between 3 and 8+ years of building backend systems and microservices in Go (Golang) or Java.
• Good working knowledge of HTTP and gRPC, and of sound API design.
• Skilled with both relational (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases, including schema design and query tuning.
• Hands-on work with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins or ArgoCD.
• A firm grasp of distributed systems and microservice design patterns.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools.
• Knowledge of OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and JWT for authentication and authorization.
• Understanding of secure coding practices and compliance frameworks such as GDPR and SOC 2.
• A sense of ownership and a product-minded approach to solving problems, with strong communication and teamwork.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Nice to have: a love of games and of building technology that shapes how players experience them.
• Nice to have: hands-on experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
• Nice to have: experience building online service platforms or backend systems for AAA games.
• Nice to have: experience building microservices in Go (Golang).
• Nice to have: experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

Conditions

Hybrid role based in Novato, California.

Candidates must be legally authorised to work in the United States. The publisher does not offer visa sponsorship or assistance for this position, now or in future.

The company never contacts candidates through instant messaging apps or personal email, and only sends email from 2K.com accounts.