Platform Engineering Manager

Engineering
Remote
December 4, 2024
Full Time

Job Description

We’re looking for a Platform Engineering Manager to join our team at Hypixel Studios, which collaborates remotely from around the world. Our members range from industry newcomers to experts with 25+ years of experience. Team members come from a diverse set of backgrounds, but share a common passion for building polished player-focused, community-powered games.

Join us on our mission to bring players together in an inviting, immersive world where they can make their mark. Hytale empowers creative expression across a spectrum of experiences including sandbox adventure, social play, minigames, and creativity using a suite of powerful and accessible tools.

As a Platform Engineering Manager, you will support your team through a combination of coaching, direction-setting, career management and some hands-on engineering. Your team will design, prototype, and implement the fundamental systems which underpin Hytale’s game services and supporting infrastructure.

Who you are:

  • Attentive Leader: Passionate about people management. Set career growth expectations for individuals on your team and mentor them to meet those expectations, including writing and delivering reviews.
  • A Force Multiplier: You understand how to empower engineers on your team to learn, grow, and scale.
  • Calm under pressure: You exude calm in even the toughest of situations. When things get spicy, you work as a cooler to help the team reach a solution.
  • Immersed in platform building: You have experience with and a passion for building backend services in support of data driven, scalable gameplay systems.
  • Adaptable: You are comfortable with switching gears between optimization, break/fix, and development and understand the need for rapid re-prioritization.
  • Quality Aware: You know and care how your team’s code affects cost, reliability and maintainability.

Some of your role:

  • Manage a team of 3-6 engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, direction-setting, and hands-on engineering.
  • Performance management including writing and delivering reviews.
  • Work closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to prioritize, break down, and select work for your team.
  • Work closely with gameplay and systems engineers and transform their feature requests into well specified deliverables.
  • Architect, plan and review implementations of web services and tooling written in Golang and Python.
  • Create detailed and highly-accessible documentation for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Essential Traits:

  • 6+ years of professional programming experience in systems languages (Golang, C++, Java, Rust).
  • 6+ years working on scaled backend services and infrastructure.
  • 2+ years as a manager or in a similar leadership role.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, observability, software development lifecycle and cloud infrastructure.

Bonus Traits: 

  • Experience working with Agile delivery.
  • Experience growing a team through hiring & performance management.
  • Experience managing expectations of stakeholders within large organizations.
  • Experience working on Games-as-a-Service (GaaS).

We can offer:

  • Competitive salary.
  • Annual Performance Bonus (APB)
  • Quality of Life increases.
  • Christmas closure.
  • A chance to work on a new game project with an extremely motivated team.
  • Opportunities to learn and grow personally and professionally.
  • A stable and secure work environment.
  • The ability to work remotely.

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