Fortis Games needs to deliver a scalable, self-service platform that supports 100M+ players with sub-100ms ingestion latency, enabling game teams to ship features faster without backend friction.
Requirements
- Proven leadership in managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams that build and operate large-scale, real-time or near-real-time platforms.
- Expertise in distributed data processing and storage systems, including experience with pub/sub messaging platforms (Kafka, Redpanda, etc.).
- Deep understanding of developer experience, self-service architectures, and platform-as-a-product thinking.
- Demonstrated ability to align long-term architecture vision with immediate delivery milestones.
- Background in building scalable cloud-native platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and integrating modern analytics stacks.
- Prior experience with and knowledge of data privacy and compliance regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing Platform Engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and player-first thinking.
- Define and execute the 3-year platform vision and 12-month delivery plan, ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.
- Partner with Product, Game Development, and Analytics teams to ensure the platform meets evolving game and player needs.
- Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, real-time data processing, integrating tools such as Redpanda, Flink, ClickHouse, and Iceberg.
- Establish and track key platform metrics, including uptime, ingestion latency, developer onboarding time, and cost per million events.
- Automate operational workflows and remove manual bottlenecks, ensuring the team spends its time on high-value design and decision-making.
- Maintain strong SLOs for reliability, scalability, and developer experience, while championing adoption across all Fortis studios to ensure seamless integration for new and existing games.
Other
- Exceptional communication skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience managing complex trade-offs between performance, cost, and speed of delivery.
- We believe in building a sense of belonging through our games, their communities, and how we operate and treat each other.
- If you're passionate about tackling difficult problems with direct and thoughtful communication and team first mentality, we may be the right place for you.
- We're not just about making Games Where You Belong. We're also about building communities where our people belong. That's why Fortis is a thriving environment that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and fosters growth.
