Senior Backend Engineer, Multiplayer

Description

BisectHosting is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, Multiplayer to design and build core infrastructure for game studios running dedicated multiplayer servers.

You'll own systems across server allocation, fleet management, deployments, scaling, and developer-facing APIs, from architecture through production operation. As a senior engineer, you'll also help set technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

What you'll work on:

• •Architect multiplayer server orchestration, allocation, scheduling, and lifecycle systems
• •Design fleet management, autoscaling, regional placement, health, and failure recovery
• •Build deployment, rollout, rollback, and capacity-management systems
• •Develop control-plane services, host agents, and APIs for game backends and matchmaking
• •Build Infrastructure-as-Code across cloud, bare-metal, and BisectFleets™ environments
• •Design reliable distributed systems around retries, idempotency, reconciliation, partial failures, and eventual consistency
• •Build observability for allocation latency, fleet health, capacity, and infrastructure failures
• •Lead technical design for major platform initiatives
• •Own production reliability, incident response, and root-cause improvements
• •Mentor engineers and raise standards through design and code reviews

What we're looking for:

• •Strong professional experience building backend, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems
• •Professional experience with multiplayer infrastructure
• •Experience supporting at least one multiplayer game or online service through production launch
• •Strong understanding of dedicated game servers, matchmaking, sessions, and multiplayer networking
• •Strong Linux, networking, Docker, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals
• •Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or CDK
• •Experience designing highly available systems, asynchronous workflows, and production APIs
• •Strong understanding of distributed systems, including retries, consistency, concurrency, and failure recovery
• •Ability to independently take ambiguous infrastructure problems from architecture through production
• •Ability to make and communicate technical tradeoffs around reliability, scalability, latency, and complexity

Preferred Qualifications:

• •Experience building multiplayer orchestration, scheduling, or allocation systems
• •Strong Kubernetes or Agones experience
• •Experience with control-plane architectures and reconciliation systems
• •Experience operating workloads across cloud and bare-metal infrastructure
• •Experience with distributed coordination, messaging systems, and high-throughput state stores
• •Experience with latency-aware placement, capacity forecasting, or autoscaling
• •Experience integrating with Unity, Unreal Engine, or external developer SDKs
• •Experience operating multi-region infrastructure and leading production incidents
• •Experience migrating or scaling a live multiplayer title across infrastructure providers