Platform Engineer
Xsolla is a video game commerce company that provides a suite of tools and services—including merchant of record payment processing, tax management, fraud prevention, compliance, refunds, dispute management, and end-user support—to help game developers and publishers launch, grow, and monetize their games globally. It serves video game developers, publishers, and studios of all sizes across global and regional markets.
About Xsolla
Xsolla connects the tools, systems, payments, and web shops used by the video games industry, positioning itself as a global merchant of record supporting over 1,000 payment methods and a cumulative audience of 50 million, with transaction fees around 5%. Its services include tax management, fraud monitoring and prevention, global and regional regulatory compliance, refund and dispute management, and end-user payment support. Xsolla's product lineup includes the Xsolla SDK for native in-app payments on side-loaded apps and alternative app stores, a Buy Button enabling link-out purchases from iOS mobile games in the U.S., and Web Shop for building customized, direct-to-consumer game storefronts. The company works with major gaming industry partners and clients such as Mytona, Ubisoft, MARVEL SNAP, and others, and highlights partner success stories, industry events, and its own culture and hiring initiatives on its site.
Skills
About the Role
You will manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters, whether self-hosted or cloud-based, ensuring smooth and reliable operations. You will implement and maintain infrastructure in the cloud, and take care of Linux servers, web servers, and application servers. You will handle configuration management using tools like Puppet and Ansible, and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt. You will also troubleshoot issues across the infrastructure to keep systems running efficiently.
Requirements
- 4 to 7 years of experience as a DevOps/SRE/Platform engineer
- Extensive experience with Linux
- Extensive experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes
- Experience with Self-hosted Kubernetes clusters administration
- GCP or AWS cloud experience
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
- Experience with Python / Bash scripting
- Experience with observability tools
- Experience with CI/CD
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Strong communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
- Manage Kubernetes clusters (self-hosted or cloud-based)
- Implement and maintain infrastructure in the cloud
- Manage Linux servers, web servers and application servers
- Perform configuration management (Puppet, Ansible)
- Manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt)
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- PTO
- Personalized career roadmap
- Professional development through training and educational opportunities