Lead Platform Engineer - Infrastructure & Backend

The posting, as Tripledot Studios wrote it

Who are we?

Tripledot Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world.

We are a multi-award-winning organisation, with a global 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios.

Our expanded portfolio includes some of the biggest titles in mobile gaming, collectively reaching top chart positions around the world and engaging over 25 million daily active users.

Tripledot’s guiding principle is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others.

We’re building a company we’re proud of. One filled with driven, incredibly smart and detail-orientated people, who LOVE making games.

Our ambition is to be the most successful games company in the world, and we’re just getting started.

This role will be working with Lion Studio.

Lion Studios is a mobile games publisher that works with mobile developers to get their games discovered by players around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lion Studios’ creative and strategy teams utilize their expertise to help game developers break through the noise and grow their businesses.
Since launching in 2018, Lion Studios has driven 90% of its games to the Top 10 in the App Store and Google Play and helped drive 16 games to #1 in the US App Store’s Top Free chart.

About the Role

Lion Studios is looking for an Infrastructure & Backend Engineering Lead to own and evolve the technical foundation behind our games, analytics systems, internal products, and web services. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering across AWS, data infrastructure, backend and game services, and web infrastructure. You’ll help set technical direction, lead the team, and work alongside engineers to design, build, and improve the systems that support Lion and our games.
We’re looking for someone who can keep critical systems reliable while also looking ahead, identifying opportunities, and driving technical improvements across the organization.

What You’ll Own

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Own our AWS infrastructure, architecture, reliability, monitoring, security, and cost optimization.
• Drive infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices.
• Design and implement improvements to our cloud infrastructure and shared services.
• Support infrastructure and hosting for internal products, websites, APIs, and other services.

Data & Analytics Infrastructure

• Own the infrastructure behind our analytics stack, including Snowflake and high-volume game event pipelines.
• Improve the reliability, performance, scalability, and cost of our data infrastructure.
• Work closely with Analytics and BI to evolve the underlying data platform.
• Help design and implement changes as our data and analytics needs grow.

Backend & Game Services

• Own shared backend services, APIs, game servers, and live game infrastructure.
• Design and build backend systems alongside the team.
• Help define architecture and hosting strategies for services used

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on. Candidates based in Dallas will follow a hybrid work arrangement with our Dallas studio, with four days per week in the office (Monday–Thursday).

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $150,000–$185,000. Compensation decisions are made based on the unique qualifications, experience and circumstances of each candidate. Actual compensation is determined based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to an individual's skills, experience, education, training, licenses and certifications (where applicable), as well as business and organizational needs. The final compensation package will be based on the specific position offered in addition to a full range of medical and other benefits.

Tripledot Studios is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics.

As part of our interview process, we may use AI-enabled tools to assist with note-taking and summarizing conversations. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and interviewers. They are not used to screen applications or make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are made by people.

This opening is for an existing vacancy.

All legitimate Tripledot roles are only posted on our official careers page and LinkedIn and we do not conduct job interviews via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or others. We never ask for personal or financial information during interviews. Sensitive information is only ever requested after a formal written offer through official channels. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scam or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Our in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (tripledotstudios.com)