Lead Software Engineer

SteelSeries is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join their GG cloud team. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will work closely with hardware and software product teams to ensure products are designed and engineered to deliver a best-in-class web experience for gamers.

Responsibilities:

• 7+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering
• Experience building scalable cloud solutions including container orchestration, database design, and network infrastructure, and distributed systems design
• Experience designing and building web back ends and web user interfaces
• Demonstrated ability to build and operate reliable, high-availability cloud platforms with hands-on experience in observability (logging, tracing, monitoring) and resilience engineering
• Proven experience leading a platform engineering team to deliver well documented and well tested cloud solutions.
• Proficiency leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and drive engineering efficiency
• A desire to mentor and elevate fellow engineers
• Eagerness to continuously learn and excel in the craft of software engineering
• Experience leading a team of software engineers to produce tested and well-documented software

Within 1 month:

• Come up to speed with SteelSeries' tech stack, which includes a new web application written in React and deployed in AWS using containers
• Ship a new feature in the cloud platform

Within 3 months:

• Evaluate the architecture of the cloud platform, suggest potential areas for refactoring, and work with product management and engineering to plan any desired changes
• Assist product in defining the quarterly roadmap of work for the cloud platform team
• Continue to innovate and add features to web-based experiences for gamers
• Play with and give feedback on unannounced hardware products coming out next year

Within 9 months:

• Work closely with hardware and software product teams to align on the vision for upcoming products
• Help define hardware and web APIs to ensure apps can seamlessly interact with hardware and cloud services
• Proactively refactor code to achieve a perpetually clean design that has adequate test coverage
• Evaluate new programming languages, frameworks, and tools and propose when they should be integrated and/or migrated to
• Work across software teams to educate others on best practices for code, test, and documentation quality

Benefits:

• Competitive pay
• 10% time (slack day) policy
• Continuous education stipend
• Early access to SteelSeries gear
• Employee discount on all SteelSeries hardware