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Senior Backend Engineer - China

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China - ShanghaiFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain large-scale, highly available backend systems for a gaming platform, with a focus on elastic infrastructure, DevOps automation, and operating at scale for millions of concurrent players.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the engineering work in your expertise areas. Share knowledge with other team members, set up best engineering practices, and control code quality through reviews. Design and implement large-scale, highly available backend systems that serve thousands to millions of concurrent players and aim for zero downtime.
  • Embrace modern container and cluster management technology to make our backend stack more elastic and robust.
  • Improve and maintain an agile and reliable development environment for the backend stack, so that people with different skillsets in the company can do social experiments easily, and new hires can ramp up quickly.
  • Monitor the backend health and respond to any failures or glitches to deliver a smooth online experience to players worldwide; keep improving dev-ops tools to make the job more automatic and error-proof.

Qualifications

  • 5+ year or more experience in backend development and deployment in a production environment.
  • Have a thorough understanding of scalable and highly available backend systems; be familiar with open-source distributed system tech stacks, including but not limited to scalable databases, caching strategy, distributed transactions, and dev-ops tools.
  • Be able to extract useful information from different sources of logs, find correlations between multiple layers of systems, and diagnose failures, suspicious behaviors, and performance bottlenecks from bottom to top.
  • Be comfortable working with the Linux ecosystem; be fluent in Linux or macOS bash CLI tools and Python scripting.
  • Have deep knowledge of at least one of Go, Erlang, or C++.
  • Have deep knowledge of at least one SQL and one NoSQL database. Have deep knowledge of at least one distributed message queue system.
  • Eager to learn any new technology and always open to jumping out of your comfort zone. Experienced in managing production environments on Cloud provider service.
  • Capable of understanding English documentation. Fluent in written English for technical communications in chat tools. Be able to speak English for daily life. Fluent in spoken English for professional communications.
  • Experienced in building systems that involve eventually or strongly consistent distributed transactions.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsLinux / Bash / PythonGo / Erlang / C++SQL / NoSQL databases
Nice to have:Distributed messaging (Kafka, NATS)
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About thatgamecompany

is a game studio dedicated to creating timeless interactive entertainment that inspires human connection worldwide.

thatgamecompany is a game studio dedicated to creating timeless interactive entertainment that inspires human connection worldwide.

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