Senior Backend Engineer, Multiplayer

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.

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

Strong professional backend, infrastructure, platform, or distributed-systems experience; multiplayer production experience; Linux, networking, Docker, cloud, Infrastructure-as-Code, APIs, reliability, and distributed-systems expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• architecting orchestration
• building APIs
• mentoring engineers

Skills & Tools

Linux, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK, Kubernetes, Agones, Unity, Unreal Engine, Infrastructure-as-Code

Job Details

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

About BisectHosting Careers

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