Senior Software Engineer II

Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric #LifeAtRazer experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.

Job Responsibilities :

In this role, you will provide technical leadership in designing scalable, high-performance, secure, cost-efficient, and maintainable cloud-native systems that support both current and future business needs. You will play a key role in transforming our existing single-region, monolithic platform into a distributed, cloud-native microservices architecture, with a strong focus on multi-region deployments, data residency compliance, and modern service decomposition.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy microservice applications on AWS.
• Build and maintain scalable deployment platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies on AWS or GCP.
• Develop, own, and maintain mission-critical, high-traffic Razer ID API microservices within your area of responsibility.
• Utilize containerization and Kubernetes to support scalable and reproducible deployments in a cloud environment (AWS or GCP).
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, product, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure the architecture supports both functional and regulatory requirements.
• Establish engineering best practices, architectural standards, and code review processes to ensure consistent, high-quality implementations across services and regions.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns, fostering technical growth and engineering excellence within the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including PD, internal stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Stay current with emerging technologies in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, and web architecture, and evaluate their potential to improve the system design.
• Participate in production support and provide technical expertise for critical issues escalated by the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.

Pre-Requisites :

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in an IT-related role, including at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Golang, PHP, or equivalent backend technologies.
• Experience deploying and operating applications on AWS. Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, particularly multi-region deployments, including service mesh architectures, traffic routing, global failover strategies, latency optimization, regional scaling, and cross-region consistency.
• Proficient in cloud-native technologies, including containers (Docker), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs. Familiarity with gRPC, MySQL/PostgreSQL, and Redis is an advantage.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with a passion for teamwork.
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
• Strong understanding of software development principles such as Agile and SCRUM.

Razer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that diverse teams drive better ideas, better products, and a stronger culture. We are committed to providing an inclusive, respectful, and fair workplace for every employee across all the countries we operate in. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, ancestry, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under local laws. Where needed, we provide reasonable accommodations - including for disability or religious practices - to ensure every team member can perform and contribute at their best.

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