Amazon Senior Online Services Engineer Amazon Games 

Romania, Bucharest 

3218733

As a Senior Online Services Engineer at Amazon Games, you will be at the forefront of creating and maintaining the crucial backend infrastructure that powers our online gaming experiences. In this role, you'll combine your deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architecture with gaming industry knowledge to build robust, scalable solutions. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing the critical services that enable millions of players to connect, compete, and interact seamlessly across our game portfolio.Working at the intersection of cloud computing and game development, you'll leverage AWS technologies to create innovative solutions for complex technical challenges. Your expertise will be essential in building and maintaining the backbone of our games' online features, from matchmaking systems to real-time player data management. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our online services meet the demanding requirements of modern gaming while maintaining optimal performance and reliability.Key job responsibilities
• Design, develop and maintain a highly distributed, scalable multiplayer environment
• Lead AWS-based solutions across game development, publishing, and operations teams
• Leverage AWS-based solutions that will solve the needs of the game development, publishing, customer service, and live operations teams
• Monitor, measure, and improve system stability and developer iteration time
• Make key architecture decisions and plan technical roadmaps
• Mentor junior engineers and shape engineering practices
• Set up monitoring and performance tracking for game services
• Tackle cross-team projects to improve system performance and developer efficiency

- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of modern service architectures and patterns.
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of engineering with cloud platforms and related tools.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- AWS Knowledge