Soulbound
Backend Server Engineer (MMORPG)- GCP
Remote Backend Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 18, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
United Kingdom
Role overview
Backend Server Engineer (MMORPG)- GCP
Requirements and responsibilities
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What You'll Do
- Build, optimise, and scale backend services powering real-time multiplayer gameplay
- Work with GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes to manage deployments and autoscaling for stateful game servers
- Improve observability: monitoring dashboards, alerting (Prometheus/Grafana or GCP Cloud Monitoring), and incident response
- Scale distributed databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL) under high concurrent load
- Optimise Kafka event streaming for player actions, game state, and inter-service communication
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks before they become player-facing problems
- Improve resilience and prevent cascading failures across services
- Collaborate on architectural decisions with a small, senior engineering team
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (ideally GKE) in production
- Real experience scaling distributed systems under load.
- Worked with at least some of: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, pub/sub systems
- Comfortable with monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, or equivalent)
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Helm)
- Self-directed.
- Github/linkedin portfolio
What Sets You Apart
- Experience with game backends or real-time multiplayer systems
- Passion for MMO gaming experiences and understanding of MMO products in the market.
- Worked with stateful server architectures (dedicated game servers)
- Experience with custom game server orchestration on Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Istio service mesh
- Previous work at a game studio, especially on live service/MMO titles
- A passion for the unique problems presented when operating a large scale MMO like this.
Benefits
- 100% remote, must overlap significantly with UK (GMT/BST) hours.
- Contract role, 4-8 weeks initially with extension likely post-launch
- Full-time preferred, flexible for exceptional candidates
- Competitive salary / monthly rate.
- Become a valued member of our close-knit, passionate indie team of 25.
- Play a key role in creating a groundbreaking virtual world that will captivate and welcome millions of players.
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