2K
Staff Platform Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 hours ago
PythonJavaGoBackend DevelopmentGitAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsDevOpsPlatform EngineeringLLMsAgentic AILeadershipArgo CD
About the role
- We believe the best ideas come from teams that feel empowered, supported, and inspired.
- Through the creation of robust "golden paths," self-service infrastructure, and sophisticated automation, you will unlock developer velocity and eliminate operational friction.
Responsibilities
- AI Strategy & Execution: Own the strategic roadmap and oversee the architectural delivery of our developer portal, utilizing AI and LLM-backed agentic workflows to automate complex environment bootstrapping, context-aware troubleshooting, and intent-driven infrastructure provisioning.
- Serve as the primary architectural advisor to engineering tech leads, consulting on core design strategies to ensure their services are built to leverage cloud-native Kubernetes patterns and advanced AI platform features effectively.
- Platform Product Ownership: Drive a "platform as a product" strategy, positioning the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) as the central hub of the developer experience.
- Partner with engineering leaders to deliver intuitive, frictionless, self-service capabilities that abstract away underlying infrastructure complexities and accelerate software delivery.
- DevEx Strategy: Collaborate with tech leads across different studios to identify systemic bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle, advising and steering teams on the design of automated solutions that elevate developer velocity, autonomy, and overall experience.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provide high-level architectural direction and governance to internal tech leads as they build and maintain modular, reusable Terraform libraries, ensuring standardized environment provisioning across multi-cloud and on-prem data centers.
- Governance & Standards: Define organization-wide standards for container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and service discovery within the Kubernetes ecosystem, partnering with engineering leads to ensure adoption and operational consistency.
- Advanced Troubleshooting: Provide Tier 2 support for complex platform-level issues, conducting deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing architectural changes to prevent systemic recurrence.
- In this role, you will partner with engineering leads to define operational guardrails, SLA/SLO frameworks, and blameless post-mortem processes to ensure continuous platform availability and high operational maturity.
- High-Availability by Design: Proven ability to architect multi-region, high-availability systems capable of supporting global user bases.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with at least 4+ years specifically focused on building internal developer platforms or Kubernetes-based tooling.
- Deep, expert-level experience with AWS and/or GCP, specifically managing highly elastic, mission-critical production workloads.
- Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or Rust, with a clear focus on building automation tools, Kubernetes operators, and developer-facing APIs.
- Proven ability to architect multi-region, high-availability systems capable of supporting global user bases.
- A strong "customer-first" behavioral mindset tailored to internal developer needs, combined with the ability to influence without authority across distributed teams and time zones.
- Deep Industry Experience: 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with at least 4+ years specifically focused on building internal developer platforms or Kubernetes-based tooling.
- Cloud Architecture: Deep, expert-level experience with AWS and/or GCP, specifically managing highly elastic, mission-critical production workloads.
- Strong Programming Foundations: Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or Rust, with a clear focus on building automation tools, Kubernetes operators, and developer-facing APIs.
Skills
- The pay range for this position in Los Angeles, CA at the start of employment is expecte d to be between $160,000 and $180,000.
- Our portfolio is brought to life by some of the most influential game development studios in the world.
- But what truly powers 2K is our people.
- What We Need
- Accountable for driving the technical strategic roadmap within Platform Engineering.
- Establish and iterate on the incident management and escalation strategy.
- What Will Make You A Great Fit
- Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes architecture, cloud-native ecosystems, and internals such as operators, controllers, and CRDs.
Compensation
- The pay range for this position in Los Angeles, CA at the start of employment is expecte d to be between $160,000 and $180,000.
Company info
- At 2K, we create some of the most iconic and culture-shaping video games in entertainment, including NBA® 2K, one of the top-selling franchises in the world, and legendary titles like BioShock®, Borderlands®, Mafia *,* Sid Meier's Civilization ®, and XCOM®, as well as fan favorites WWE® 2K *,* TopSpin®, and PGA TOUR® 2K *.* We build unforgettable experiences by pushing the boundaries of creativity, authenticity and innovation across every genre.
- Our portfolio is brought to life by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games, 31st Union, Cloud Chamber, Gearbox, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab create world-class experiences across platforms.
- We believe the best ideas come from teams that feel empowered, supported, and inspired. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where people are encouraged to come as they are and do their best work.
- Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games, 31st Union, Cloud Chamber, Gearbox, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab create world-class experiences across platforms.
- As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where people are encouraged to come as they are and do their best work.
- As a Staff Platform Engineer at 2K, you are a visionary technical leader serving as the architect and champion of our internal developer ecosystems.
- Your primary mission is to steer the integration of advanced AI capabilities into our core infrastructure, driving the design and evolution of our next-generation Autonomous Agentic Development Platform (ADP).
- By championing a strict "platform-as-a-product" philosophy, you will ensure our ecosystem is continuously optimized for internal game and back-end service teams.
- Operating with organization-wide influence, you will shape the long-term roadmap for platform engineering and mentor senior technical talent across 2K.
This listing is sourced directly from 2K's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.