Backend Engineer, Multiplayer

BisectHosting is hiring a Backend Engineer, Multiplayer to build core orchestration systems for game studios running dedicated multiplayer servers.

You'll work across server allocation, fleet management, infrastructure orchestration, deployments, scaling, and developer-facing APIs. This is a high-ownership role with responsibility for major areas of the platform from technical design through production operation.

What you'll work on

• Build core 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 used by game backends and matchmaking systems
• Write Infrastructure-as-Code transformers across cloud, bare-metal, and BisectFleets™ environments
• Design reliable distributed systems around retries, reconciliation, partial failures, and eventual consistency
• Build observability for allocation latency, fleet health, capacity, and infrastructure failures
• Own the technical roadmap and production operation of the systems you build

What we're looking for

• Strong professional experience building backend, infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems
• Professional experience integrating multiplayer infrastructure
• Experience supporting at least one multiplayer game through a 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
• Ability to independently take an infrastructure problem from requirements through architecture, implementation, deployment, and operation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building multiplayer server orchestration or scheduling systems
• Strong Kubernetes or Agones experience
• 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 infrastructure with Unity, Unreal Engine, or external developer SDKs
• Experience operating multi-region infrastructure and responding to production incidents
• Experience migrating or scaling a live multiplayer title across infrastructure providers

Professional backend, infrastructure, platform, or distributed-systems experience; multiplayer infrastructure and production-launch experience; Linux, networking, Docker, cloud, IaC, highly available systems, asynchronous workflows, and production APIs.

Key Responsibilities

• building orchestration systems
• designing fleet management
• operating infrastructure

Skills & Tools

Linux, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK, Kubernetes, Agones, Unity, Unreal Engine

Job Details

• Category: Software Development
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — United States
• Languages: English

About BisectHosting Careers

A technology company providing infrastructure and hosting services for multiplayer game studios. — Industry: Information Technology