Staff Platform Engineer

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.

But what truly powers 2K is our people.

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.

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.

• 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.

• Technical Leadership: Accountable for driving the technical strategic roadmap within Platform Engineering. 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.

• Operational Resilience & On-Call Strategy: Establish and iterate on the incident management and escalation strategy. 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.

• 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.

• Kubernetes Expertise: Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes architecture cloud-native ecosystems and internals such as operators controllers and CRDs.

• Cloud Architecture: Deep expert-level experience with AWS and/or GCP specifically managing highly elastic mission-critical production workloads.

• AI & Agentic Engineering Skills: Proven foundational knowledge or hands-on experience incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents into automated engineering workflows APIs or platform tools.

• 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.

• Modern Tooling Mastery: Complete mastery of Git configuration management tools and CI/CD platforms (such as GitHub Actions and ArgoCD) alongside expert-level Terraform utilization.

• High-Availability by Design: Proven ability to architect multi-region high-availability systems capable of supporting global user bases.

• Customer-First Mindset: 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.

• Rotational Availability: Willingness and ability to participate in a 24/7 rotational on-call schedule to maintain platform stability.

• 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).

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.

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What We Do

2K is headquartered in Novato California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005 2K Games is a global video game company publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms include Visual Concepts Firaxis Hangar 13 CatDaddy Cloud Chamber 31st Union and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres including sports shooters action role-playing strategy casual and family entertainment. Our team of engineers marketers artists writers data scientists producers thinkers and doers are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K 2K PGA Battleborn BioShock Borderlands The Quarry The Darkness Mafia Sid Meier’s Civilization Marvel’s Midnight Suns WWE 2K and XCOM. At 2K we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K we encourage you to apply!

Why Work With Us

We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We push ourselves creatively to do the best work of our careers. We’re direct open and you’ll probably meet some new best friends – along with their dogs – sitting nearby. In short it’s kinda awesome.

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