Senior Telemetry Engineer
Senior Telemetry Engineer
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Job Description
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Who We Are
2K publishes some of the most popular video game franchises on the planet including Mafia Borderlands BioShock NBA 2K WWE 2K Evolve XCOM and Sid Meiers Civilization.
The Core Technology group is responsible for identifying common problems across the company and building solutions to those problems. We fill our team with individuals who enjoy a challenge enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and want to take ownership and responsibility for products. If you are passionate about working in the game industry and implementing cool features for our game products come join our team.
What You Will Do
Architect and implement telemetry events using Apache Kafka Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams.
Build high-performance telemetry pipelines capable of ingesting millions of game events per second.
Develop and maintain edge collectors and SDK integrations for telemetry from game clients (Unity Unreal). Knowledge of Golang and Java.
Integrate with downstream systems like S3 Databricks and Snowflake for real-time and batch processing.
Define schemas and evolve event contracts using Avro/Protobuf with Schema Registry.
Monitor and tune performance for ingestion services and Kafka brokers (batching compression partitioning).
Implement robust data validation dead-letter queues and replay mechanisms for data quality and recovery.
Collaborate on cost optimization strategies (e.g. tiered storage compaction cloud-native deployment).
What you bring
5 years Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (brokers producers/consumers partitions).
Knowledge of Kafka Connect Schema Registry and Kafka Streams/Flink/Spark Streaming.
Proven experience designing distributed fault-tolerant ingestion systems.
Deep understanding of message ordering delivery guarantees and backpressure handling.
Experience with multi-region architecture auto-scaling and cloud-native deployment (e.g. MSK Confluent Cloud).
Strong grasp of VPC design NAT gateways ENIs and cross-AZ Kafka setups.
Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Proficient in data serialization formats (Avro Protobuf JSON).
CI/CD pipeline design using Jenkins GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
Experience deploying to AWS including usage of S3 EC2 and Lambda.
Bonus items
A passion for working in games
Experience with game telemetry pipelines in AAA or mobile game studios.
Experience with Game Telemetry Standardization and Data Contracts
Familiarity with Snowflake Delta Lake Iceberg and analytics stack integration.
Knowledge ofgame client-side logging patterns and session instrumentation.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
