Top Engineering Jobs in Austin, TX

Serves as the principal architect for an AI-native QA software development lifecycle. Designs agentic QA platforms, technical roadmaps, governance, evaluation benchmarks, and human-in-the-loop frameworks. Solves complex architectural, memory, and distributed-systems challenges using multiple programming languages. Leads Playwright automation, Datadog observability, SDK validation across Unreal Engine and Unity, code reviews, architecture reviews, technical collaboration, and mentorship.

Lead the design, operation, and reliability of hybrid AWS and VMware infrastructure supporting game services and millions of players. Manage cloud platforms, databases, networking, load balancers, observability, automation, security, CI/CD, incident response, and disaster recovery. Establish SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, and post-mortem improvements while partnering with engineering and game studios.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend microservices and APIs for gaming services. Own service domains, improve reliability and performance, optimize infrastructure costs, reduce technical debt, modernize legacy systems, and collaborate with product, design, and game teams. The role requires expertise in Go or Java, distributed systems, databases, CI/CD, observability, authentication, secure coding, and cloud or container platforms.

Migrate, maintain, and optimize game development build pipelines across Unreal Engine Horde and Jenkins. Automate CI/CD workflows, manage cloud infrastructure, improve reliability and performance, support observability, troubleshoot Windows and Linux build environments, integrate Perforce, document standardized configurations, and collaborate with development, platform, and DevOps teams across multiple studios.

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational tooling. Improve reliability, scalability, observability, developer workflows, security practices, and infrastructure cost efficiency. Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues, document runbooks, manage incidents, and participate in periodic on-call rotations.

Lead a distributed infrastructure, network, and cloud engineering organization across hybrid datacenter and public-cloud environments. Responsibilities include hiring and developing engineers, capacity planning, on-call and incident operations, infrastructure standards, cloud spend and datacenter capacity management, vendor relationships, launch readiness, and executive communication. This is a leadership-focused role requiring deep infrastructure experience and accountability for production systems.

Leads platform engineering at 2K by architecting Kubernetes infrastructure, internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, and reusable Terraform libraries across cloud and data-center environments. Drives AI- and LLM-powered automation, developer experience improvements, CI/CD and platform standards, advanced troubleshooting, high-availability architecture, and technical consultation. Mentors engineers, shapes platform roadmaps, and participates in 24/7 on-call support.