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About the Role
As a Staff Platform Engineer at 2K, you will be a visionary technical leader, architecting and championing internal developer ecosystems. Your primary mission is to integrate advanced AI capabilities into core infrastructure, driving the design and evolution of our next-generation Autonomous Agentic Development Platform (ADP). You will optimize the ecosystem for internal game and back-end service teams through a "platform-as-a-product" philosophy, creating robust "golden paths," self-service infrastructure, and sophisticated automation to unlock developer velocity and eliminate operational friction. This role involves shaping the long-term roadmap for platform engineering and mentoring senior technical talent across 2K.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic roadmap and oversee the architectural delivery of our developer portal, utilizing AI and LLM-backed agentic workflows.
- Automate complex environment bootstrapping, context-aware troubleshooting, and intent-driven infrastructure provisioning.
- Drive the technical strategic roadmap within Platform Engineering.
- Serve as the primary architectural advisor to engineering tech leads on core design strategies.
- Ensure services leverage cloud-native Kubernetes patterns and advanced AI platform features.
- 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.
- Abstract away underlying infrastructure complexities and accelerate software delivery.
- Collaborate with tech leads to identify systemic bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle.
- Advise and steer teams on the design of automated solutions that elevate developer velocity, autonomy, and overall experience.
- Provide high-level architectural direction and governance for building and maintaining modular, reusable Terraform libraries.
- Ensure standardized environment provisioning across multi-cloud and on-prem data centers.
- Define organization-wide standards for container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and service discovery within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Partner with engineering leads to ensure adoption and operational consistency.
- Provide Tier 2 support for complex platform-level issues.
- Conduct deep-dive root cause analysis and implement architectural changes to prevent systemic recurrence.
- Establish and iterate on the incident management and escalation strategy.
- Partner with engineering leads to define operational guardrails, SLA/SLO frameworks, and blameless post-mortem processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
- At least 4+ years specifically focused on building internal developer platforms or Kubernetes-based tooling.
- Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes architecture, cloud-native ecosystems, and internals such as operators, controllers, and CRDs.
- Deep, expert-level experience with AWS and/or GCP, specifically managing highly elastic, mission-critical production workloads.
- Proven foundational knowledge or hands-on experience incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents into automated engineering workflows, APIs, or platform tools.
- Advanced proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or Rust, with a clear focus on building automation tools, Kubernetes operators, and developer-facing APIs.
- Complete mastery of Git, configuration management tools, and CI/CD platforms (such as GitHub Actions and ArgoCD).
- Expert-level Terraform utilization.
- 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.
- Ability to influence without authority across distributed teams and time zones.
- Willingness and ability to participate in a 24/7 rotational on-call schedule.
Skills
- AI
- LLM
- Agentic Workflows
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-Native Ecosystems
- Operators
- Controllers
- CRDs
- AWS
- GCP
- Go
- Python
- Java
- Rust
- Git
- Configuration Management Tools
- CI/CD Platforms
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Container Orchestration
- Service Discovery
- Incident Management
- Escalation Strategy
- SLA/SLO Frameworks
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
- 4+ years specifically focused on building internal developer platforms or Kubernetes-based tooling
About the Company
- At 2K, we create iconic and culture-shaping video games, including NBA® 2K, BioShock®, Borderlands®, Mafia*,* Sid Meier’s Civilization®, XCOM®, 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 influential game development studios including Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games, 31st Union, Cloud Chamber, Gearbox, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab.
- We believe the best ideas come from teams that feel empowered, supported, and inspired.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.
- 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.