Staff Platform Engineer
Austin, Texas, United StatesAll locationsAustin, Texas, United StatesLos Angeles, California, United States Hybrid
$160,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
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. Through the creation of robust "golden paths," self-service infrastructure, and sophisticated automation, you will unlock developer velocity and eliminate operational friction. Operating with organization-wide influence, you will shape the long-term roadmap for platform engineering and mentor senior technical talent across 2K.
What you'll bring
- Gaming Industry Background: Prior experience in the gaming industry, specifically supporting large-scale, high-concurrency multiplayer backend services for AAA games.
- Agentic Workflows: Experience successfully driving an engineering organization through progressive maturity levels of agentic workflows (e.g., shifting from human-in-the-loop to autonomous hybrid operations).
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