Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game development studio that is here to make the most fun games in the world. We are a remote-first studio, headquartered in Irvine, California, with most of our team working remotely across the United States.

In Short

• Join a core member of the backend engineering team.
• Collaborate with gameplay and feature engineers.
• Design and lead the integration of new features.
• Implement and refine tools for cross-discipline development.
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.
• Ensure server uptime as part of the on-call rotation.
• Create and maintain documentation for live ops.
• Write simple, readable, and maintainable code.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
• Passion for playing and making great games.

Requirements

• Strong experience operating multi-region services in AWS.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Extensive experience in .NET/C# or similar languages.
• Experience with cloud data storage like AWS S3.
• Ability to identify security vulnerabilities.
• Awesome technical and personal communication skills.

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees.
• 401(k) contribution with no waiting period.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Home office improvement bonus.
• Paid vacation and sick time.
• Remote-first with core overlap hours.