Senior Software Engineer (Platform)
Senior Software Engineer (Platform)
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26-07-2025
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ABOUT US
At Xsolla we believe that great games begin as ideas driven by the curiosity dedication and grit of creators around the world. Our mission is to empower these visionaries by providing the support and resources they need to bring their games to life. We are committed to leveling the playing field ensuring that every creator has the opportunity to share their passion with the world.
Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Berlin Seoul and beyond we partner with industry leaders like Valve Twitch and Ubisoft to clear the paths for innovation in gaming. Our global reach spans over 200 geographies offering more than 700 payment methods in 130 currencies.
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ABOUT YOU
Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on solving complex technical challenges and building scalable systems that serve millions of users. Youre someone who enjoys working across languages and platforms with solid backend experience in Go and a deep understanding of microservices architecture.
Youre experienced with containerized environments and orchestration platforms CI/CD practices and automated testing ensuring systems are scalable maintainable and production-ready. You know how to architect systems that are resilient maintainable and scalable. Youre data-driven collaborative and committed to building high-impact solutions that support Xsollas mission to power the global gaming economy.
About The Platform Team
- Event data is at the center of Adtech architecture. This platform team is defining how we shape and transmit events across all of our systems.
- The team ensures the systems that these events cross are built with consistency reliability and scalability in mind and is responsible for scaling workflows driven by these events.
- In the team were big users of Kafka its used in the majority of our streaming processing workloads.
- In terms of storage we primarily use Postgres (for OLTP) Clickhouse (for customer-facing OLAP workloads) and BigQuery (for internal use only).
- The team is currently composed of 4 Engineers and the majority of their work is on platform systems.
- We use Temporal to power distributed workflows across services especially for orchestrating multi-step event-driven processes.
- This team is NOT: IT data data governance and feeding data warehouses. The team is focused on delivering high-quality data within the product providing an interface for stakeholders and computing critical workflows at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design build and maintain scalable event-driven backend systems that power the core data infrastructure used across Xsolla products.
- Contribute to the evolution of our event platform including how events are shaped routed processed and stored at scale.
- Develop services and workflows using Go Kafka and Temporal.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers designers QA and other engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Own critical components of the Platform architecture especially those related to event ingestion transformation and delivery.
- Develop and maintain scalable microservices deployed in containerized environments (e.g. Kubernetes).
- Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews focusing on performance reliability and maintainability.
- Take ownership of workflows and services in production including performance tuning incident resolution and on-call participation.
Qualifications and Skills
- 2 years of experience with Kafka.
- 5 years of backend experience ideally with Go (or similar).
- Experienced with asynchronous microservices understands distributed computing and architecture in general.
- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal Cadence or equivalent.
- Understands cloud infrastructure observability and scaling.
- Experience working with Kubernetes Docker and containerized environments.
- Ability to analyze complex problems identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure.
- Background in the gaming or payments industry.
Good To Have
The duties and responsibilities of this position may evolve over time to support the organizations goals and individual growth. This job description is intended to outline the general nature and level of work being performed and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required.
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