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Senior Telemetry Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States


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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 Meier’s 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 of game client-side logging patterns and session instrumentation.

 

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

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