Jobs at esports and metaverse companies: gameplay, engine, design and backend roles

647 open roles at 29 esports and metaverse companies in 17 countries: Backend, platform and tools (247), Game programming and gameplay (220), Product and leadership (72), AI and data (55). None of them states a citizenship or security-check demand. 18 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 30 Oct 2026
open roles
647
companies
29
open to any nationality
100%
median stated pay
$269k

Studios hiring

StudioOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
Roblox Corporation214100%2
Tencent178100%2
Riot Games121100%8
万有引力48100%
REALITY13100%
Moonton9100%
Skillz8100%
PUBG Corporation7100%
OVERDARE7100%
M-League4100%
FACEIT4100%3
VRChat3100%
Ensapia3100%
Animoca Brands3100%
Innomotics3100%

Newest roles

Roblox Corporation

roblox.com
roblox.com · HQ: San Mateo, United States · Mobile Games · Metaverse · Game Development · 5000+ employees · Est. 2004 · NYSE: RBLX · Trust B · Hiring 257, 19 new
HQ: San Mateo, United States · Mobile Games · Metaverse · Game Development · 5000+ employees · Est. 2004 · NYSE: RBLX · Trust B · Hiring 257, 19 new
Roblox is an American company founded in 2004 that operates a platform where users build and publish their own three-dimensional games and social experiences for other users to play. Its economy runs on a virtual currency called Robux, which players buy and spend inside experiences, and a share of which is paid out to the creators who make them, so the company earns from the platform rather than from producing games itself. Headquartered in San Mateo and listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021, it reports tens of millions of daily active users, skewed heavily toward younger age groups.
David Baszucki · Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Manuel Bronstein · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Barbara Messing · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Daniel Sturman · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Careers mailbox is known
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 11 hours ago Likely open · 63%

Senior Product Designer, Consumer App

$271k – $323k per year · Equity · Senior · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Mateo, United States) · Senior
A/B Testing
Design
ProtoPie
Figma
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

Games Creative/Design Director

$288k – $336k per year · Equity · Head+ · 15+ years exp · Hybrid (San Mateo, United States) · Architect
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Skillz

skillz.com
skillz.com · Bengaluru · Las Vegas · New York · San Francisco · Los Angeles · Esports · Mobile Games · 201-500 employees · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 21, 3 new
Bengaluru · Las Vegas · New York · San Francisco · Los Angeles · Esports · Mobile Games · 201-500 employees · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 21, 3 new
Skillz is a publicly traded mobile eSports platform that hosts casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players and helps game developers build franchises through social competition. Its postings cover analytics, site reliability, product management and learning and development leadership roles in Bengaluru and Las Vegas. The company is based in the United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 2 hours ago 1 day ago Likely open · 60%

Software Development Engineer in Test

≈ $9k – $24k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (Bengaluru, India) · Middle
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
Copilot
LLM
DevOps
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
CI/CD
Game Dev
Unity
Management
Scrum
Agile
+4
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 16 days ago Likely open · 60%

Senior Manager Analytics

≈ $18k – $35k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Senior · 10+ years exp · In office (Bengaluru, India) · Senior
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Human-in-the-Loop
AI Agents
Game Dev
Unity
Analytics
A/B Testing
Tableau
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Tencent

tencent.com
tencent.com · HQ: Shenzhen, China · Esports · Payment Processing & Gateways · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Game Development · Messaging Apps · Consumer Internet Groups · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1998 · HKEX: 00700 · Trust B · Hiring 1445, 73 new
HQ: Shenzhen, China · Esports · Payment Processing & Gateways · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Game Development · Messaging Apps · Consumer Internet Groups · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1998 · HKEX: 00700 · Trust B · Hiring 1445, 73 new
Tencent is a Chinese technology conglomerate founded in Shenzhen in 1998 and one of the largest internet companies in the world by revenue. Its WeChat super-app combines messaging, social feeds, payments, mini-programs and official accounts into the default digital layer of Chinese daily life, with well over a billion monthly users. The group is also the biggest video game company on the planet through domestic publishing and stakes in Riot, Supercell and Epic Games, and runs Tencent Cloud, Tencent Music, a large fintech business and the Hunyuan family of foundation models.
Pony Ma · Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
John Lo · Chief Financial Officer · decision-maker
Allen Zhang · President, WeChat Group · decision-maker
Martin Lau · President · decision-maker
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 4 hours ago 1 day ago Likely open · 63%

PUBG Mobile-游戏动作设计师(AI 辅助动画方向)

In office (Shenzhen, China) · Chinese: C1
3ds Max
Maya
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 2 days ago Likely open · 63%

魔方工作室-特效TA

≈ $30k – $86k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Shenzhen, China) · Senior · Chinese: C1
C++
Game Dev
Houdini
Shader Graph
HLSL
ShaderLab
Unity
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Riot Games

riotgames.com
riotgames.com · HQ: Los Angeles, United States · PC Games · Esports · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2006 · Trust A · Hiring 166, 13 new
HQ: Los Angeles, United States · PC Games · Esports · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2006 · Trust A · Hiring 166, 13 new
Riot Games is an American video game developer founded in 2006 that built League of Legends, the free-to-play team battle game that became one of the most played titles in the world and the foundation of modern esports. It has since released the tactical shooter Valorant, the card game Legends of Runeterra, the mobile title Wild Rift and the animated series Arcane, all set in the same fictional universe, and it operates the professional leagues around its games directly rather than licensing them out. Headquartered in Los Angeles and wholly owned by Tencent, it is unusual for running a small number of titles as very long-lived services.
Marc Merrill · Co-founder and President of Games · decision-maker
Dylan Jadeja · Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Brandon Beck · Co-founder · founder
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 1 day ago Hiring now · 90%

Sr. Principal Technical Producer - Developer Connections

≈ $176k – $352k per year (Estimated) · Lead · 10+ years exp · In office (Los Angeles, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Principal
Platform Engineering
Management
Jira
Scrum
Agile
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Verified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 2 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Senior Software Engineer, Gameplay (Bots) - League of Legends (Mandarin-Proficiency Required)

≈ $132k – $273k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Los Angeles, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Senior
C++
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Game Dev
Unity
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Vital One

vitalone.lk
vitalone.lk · HQ: Colombo, Sri Lanka · Metaverse · Information Technology · Est. 2005 · Hiring 1, 1 new
HQ: Colombo, Sri Lanka · Metaverse · Information Technology · Est. 2005 · Hiring 1, 1 new
IT & Software Solutions Provider Mon - Fri 8:00 - 17:30 & Sat 9.00 - 13.30 +94 112 555 878 About Page Home About Page Innovative Technology is Our Passion Vital One (Pvt) Ltd was being operating in the industry as a strategic partner since 2005 and formed as a separate entity form 2019.
No named decision-maker yet.
Careers mailbox is known
In office (Colombo, Sri Lanka) · Full-Time
JavaScript
Databases
MongoDB
MariaDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Frontend
JQuery
Sass
React.js
DevOps
Windows
Rest API
Linux
+3
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Fenris Creations

fenris.com
fenris.com · HQ: Reykjavík, Iceland · Game Development · PC Games · Metaverse · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 3, 1 new
HQ: Reykjavík, Iceland · Game Development · PC Games · Metaverse · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 3, 1 new
Fenris Creations is a video game developer that creates virtual worlds. Founded in 2018, it builds CARBON, a shared game development platform spanning engine runtime, rendering, tools and pipelines. The company is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Jennifer Linton · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 3 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Engineering Manager

≈ $67k – $196k per year (Estimated) · Lead · 2+ years exp · Hybrid (Reykjavík, Iceland) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Staff · English
Go
Python
Databases
NATS
DynamoDB
RabbitMQ
Redis
DevOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
BGP
Incident Management
TCP/IP
CI/CD
AWS
OpenTelemetry
TeamCity
Amazon EKS
Honeycomb
Prometheus
GitHub Actions
Grafana
Ansible
Terraform
Kubernetes
+14
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 17 days ago Hiring now · 75%

Lead Game Designer

≈ $56k – $141k per year (Estimated) · Lead · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (Reykjavík, Iceland) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
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Skills these roles ask for

C++ 169Python 109Machine Learning 52C# 52Go 51AI Agents 50CI/CD 50Unreal Engine 48Kubernetes 42Java 39SQL 35Unity 35AWS 32TypeScript 31Rust 28React.js 24

Where the roles are

San Mateo 203Shenzhen 116Shanghai 96Los Angeles 56Tokyo 28Seoul 17Hangzhou 17Guangzhou 16Sydney 14Bengaluru 12

By country

United States 265China 262Japan 32South Korea 17Australia 14India 12Singapore 9United Kingdom 8Czech Republic 3Iceland 3Canada 1Ireland 1Germany 1France 1Netherlands 1Ghana 1Sri Lanka 1

Game dev roles that fit you

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Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

647 of the 647 roles here state no citizenship or security-check demand. A role that does says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which game studios hire most?

Roblox Corporation (214), Tencent (178), Riot Games (121), 万有引力 (48), REALITY (13).

Which roles count as game developer jobs?

Every game design, gameplay, engine (Unity, Unreal, Godot), graphics and AR/VR role at any employer, and the backend, platform, AI, data, QA, art and product roles of the game studios - mobile, console and PC developers and publishers, esports and metaverse companies. Gambling and betting companies are left out.

How fresh is this?

Every role is re-checked on the employer's own careers board at least every 48 hours, and the page is rebuilt every night.

Source: 647 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 30 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0