Backend Engineer - Multiple Roles

At Embark, we believe in creating smaller teams of well-aligned experts that can be trusted to keep things running smoothly while exploring innovative solutions. Currently we have openings for Backend Engineers in the following teams:

In team Backend Delivery you will, together with the team, build powerful and reusable infrastructure and backend components for our game teams. Some examples of things we’re working on are matchmaking, authentication, gameserver infrastructure, quests, ranking, in-game economy, friends, chat, etc.

The Data Team at Embark is small and focused on making sure that game design and development have a data model and reporting system that provide the necessary data and analysis to serve every aspect of the business. We are looking for someone who shares our passion for data.

In team Game Services, which is a strategic team with mixed competences, we provide online services and integration to our games. We deliver high quality online services and make sure they are operational. Examples of such services are Persistent Inventory, Friends, Voice Chat, Anti-Cheat, Progression and Store.

Some of the technologies we use to make all of those are Go, C++, Rust, GCP, AWS, Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes, Google Spanner, Typescript and BigQuery.



We would love if you have

- A creative and curious mind

- A passion for interactive experiences, games and new technologies

- A solid understanding about distributed systems and experience building them

- An understanding about Site Reliability Engineering practices and what it takes to keep services running smoothly around the clock

- The ability to be a great team player with good communication skills

- A good grasp of performance, optimization and observability

- Experience with some of the technologies we use (all is absolutely not required)//(of course you don’t need to know all of them!)

- Professional English communication skills



At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability.

Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table.

Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!

If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, feel free to apply to us via our " Open Application. (https://www.embark-studios.com/jobs/278181-game-maker-open-application)"