Jobs at 2K

Lead the design, operation, and reliability of hybrid AWS and VMware infrastructure supporting game services and millions of players. Manage cloud platforms, databases, networking, load balancers, observability, automation, security, CI/CD, incident response, and disaster recovery. Establish SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, and post-mortem improvements while partnering with engineering and game studios.

Supports global brand strategy and integrated marketing campaigns for Gearbox gaming franchises. Coordinates go-to-market planning, creative development, regional adaptation, agencies, budgets, timelines, and cross-functional teams. Uses audience research, player telemetry, KPIs, and campaign performance analysis to optimize marketing programs and drive measurable results.

Analyze player and business data for WWE 2K and PGA TOUR 2K, delivering actionable insights, reports, visualizations, business cases, and data-driven recommendations. Partner with Product, Marketing, and Commercial stakeholders, develop scalable self-service tools, identify measurement opportunities, improve data modeling, and support research and benchmarking across 2K titles. The role also mentors data users and helps define future data collection needs.

Leads community management and social marketing strategy for WWE 2K and PGA TOUR 2K. Oversees internal managers and agency partners, develops platform-specific campaigns, manages player feedback and social listening, supports live-service launches and updates, and reports insights to marketing, studio, and executive stakeholders. Drives community growth through creators, tournaments, councils, and fan programs while partnering cross-functionally to improve player experiences and brand relevance.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend microservices and APIs for gaming services. Own service domains, improve reliability and performance, optimize infrastructure costs, reduce technical debt, modernize legacy systems, and collaborate with product, design, and game teams. The role requires expertise in Go or Java, distributed systems, databases, CI/CD, observability, authentication, secure coding, and cloud or container platforms.

Drive complex multiplayer game features from concept through implementation, focusing on economy design, reward systems, player progression, and systemic content. Collaborate cross-functionally, implement and iterate features in Unreal Engine, analyze economy models, respond to feedback, provide design leadership, mentor peers, and align stakeholders around feature goals and game quality.

Migrate, maintain, and optimize game development build pipelines across Unreal Engine Horde and Jenkins. Automate CI/CD workflows, manage cloud infrastructure, improve reliability and performance, support observability, troubleshoot Windows and Linux build environments, integrate Perforce, document standardized configurations, and collaborate with development, platform, and DevOps teams across multiple studios.

Migrate, maintain, and optimize game development build pipelines across Unreal Engine Horde and Jenkins. Responsibilities include cloud migration, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, observability, troubleshooting, source control integration, documentation, and technical support. The role partners with developers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and studios to improve build reliability, scalability, uptime, and performance across Windows and Linux environments.

Develop and implement technical UI systems, materials, shaders, and workflows for video games. Collaborate with UI artists, programmers, designers, and producers to develop engine features, optimize memory and performance, prototype art pipelines, and solve technical UI and UX challenges. The role requires expert Unreal Engine 5 knowledge, ownership of performant shippable content, and strong collaboration across disciplines.

Leads 2K’s global data engineering strategy, telemetry architecture, cloud infrastructure efficiency, ML Ops enablement, and proactive modeling capabilities. Oversees high-scale distributed data systems, streaming telemetry, feature pipelines, FinOps, and operational excellence. Builds partnerships across studios and executive teams while hiring, mentoring, and developing a world-class engineering organization.

Leads and scales 2K’s technical program management practice supporting multiple game studios. Owns program delivery strategy, governance, executive reporting, staffing, roadmap execution, risk escalation, prioritization, and cross-functional alignment. Builds and develops high-performing Technical Program Manager teams while establishing processes and tools that improve delivery visibility and outcomes across shared services and platform initiatives.

Develop and optimize shaders, master materials, and technical art pipelines in Unreal Engine. Establish shader standards, build validation tools, profile performance, resolve content pipeline issues, and create reusable documentation and best practices. Collaborate across art, engineering, design, animation, and lighting teams to solve production challenges and deliver visually rich experiences across console, PC, and mobile platforms.

Designs, prototypes, ships, and tunes features for free-to-play mobile games. Owns gameplay experiences end to end, writes detailed specifications, prototypes directly in Unity, integrates live-service systems, develops agentic design workflows, analyzes telemetry, and collaborates with engineering and art teams to balance gameplay, difficulty, and monetization.

Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and maintenance of scalable in-game UI systems using Unreal Engine, Blueprints, UMG, AngelScript, and UI Materials. Translate UX designs into performant implementations, establish UI architecture and workflow standards, collaborate with multidisciplinary game development teams, evaluate new tools, and mentor technical designers. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps, hiring, onboarding, and building the studio’s technical UI function.

Leads and mentors game development teams while implementing sophisticated features for AAA titles. Responsibilities include game performance analysis and optimization, debugging and profiling, adapting to coding standards, estimating schedules, removing development bottlenecks, and automating pipelines. The role collaborates closely with producers and partner studios, supports stable deliveries, reviews code, and provides technical direction across console and PC game development projects.

Creates and implements high-quality user interface assets for the NBA 2K franchise, integrating them into the game engine with designers and engineers. Develops motion graphics and visual effects, participates in design reviews and playtests, incorporates feedback, and aligns work with the game’s art direction. Requires UI design experience, 2D and 3D graphics software proficiency, game engine implementation experience, collaboration skills, and a professional portfolio.

Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for 2K Technology’s cloud infrastructure, physical infrastructure, and developer tools. Align stakeholders, partners, engineering, SRE, and technical operations teams around scalable, reliable, cost-effective capabilities. Responsibilities include requirements definition, customer research, competitive analysis, KPI development, strategic planning, and delivery of technical products for global studios and publishing teams.

Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for 2K Technology’s cloud and physical infrastructure and developer tools. Align infrastructure, engineering, SRE, technical operations, partners, and studio stakeholders around scalable, reliable, cost-effective technology capabilities. Responsibilities include requirements definition, customer interviews, competitive analysis, strategic planning, KPI development, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of high-quality technical products.

The Manager will lead marketing initiatives for NBA 2K, focusing on player engagement and retention through strategic campaigns and content creation.

Lead a small engineering team while coding hands-on to extend Unreal Engine’s Gauntlet automation framework. Build test harnesses, input simulation, AI-driven test agents, telemetry, reporting, and scalable test infrastructure. Partner with studios and technical leaders, communicate risks and tradeoffs, manage the platform roadmap, and reduce technical debt. The role requires deep Unreal Engine and C++ expertise, engine-level testing experience, team leadership, and software telemetry or instrumentation experience.