Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure & Services - Mattel Digital Studio Mattel · El Segundo · Platform

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER.It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day.

We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Mattel Game Studios’ mission is to harness the power of Mattel’s iconic brands and IP to create engaging, high-quality digital games. Help Mattel build and operate the infrastructure behind reliable, scalable mobile games. As Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure & Live Services, you will own the cloud infrastructure, build and deployment pipelines, and monitoring systems that help our teams launch confidently and keep live games running well.

You will work with internal game production and technology teams, external development studios, and Mattel support teams from early planning through live operations. This is a hands‑on role for an engineer who understands the demands of mobile games and enjoys solving the challenges of operating services at global scale.

Alongside infrastructure ownership, you will write automation, troubleshoot production issues, and help developers integrate and deploy their applications. Your development skills will also contribute to our publishing platform and live operations tools.

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure. Design and run GCP environments for games and backend services. Guide decisions on APIs, databases, and caching. Manage hosting and content delivery, and plan for traffic growth, capacity, and cloud costs.

• Automate infrastructure and workflows. Use Terraform, scripts, and reusable workflows to make environment setup, configuration, and maintenance consistent and repeatable. Apply version control and code review to reduce risk and manual effort.

• Own build and deployment pipelines. Manage CI/CD pipelines, build servers, and deployment infrastructure for games and services. Work with studios on build and packaging needs, with automated checks, secure credentials, release approvals, and rollback procedures.

• Own monitoring, alerting, and automated reporting. Define actionable alerts, routing, and escalation for production infrastructure. Automate reporting on availability, performance, incidents, capacity, and cost for studios and leadership. Work with game teams to test capacity before launches and major updates, and agree who monitors and responds.

• Improve service reliability. Troubleshoot incidents with studios, internal teams, and service providers. Document response procedures and follow fixes through to completion. Participate in agreed on‑call and launch coverage, and test backup and recovery procedures under realistic failure conditions.

• Keep services secure. Work with Mattel Security and Privacy teams on access, credentials, data protection, and security fixes. Validate controls without disrupting legitimate players, and maintain records of production changes.

• Build full‑stack integrations and tools. Connect game clients and web applications to backend APIs, authentication, telemetry, and content services. Contribute to the publishing platform, operational dashboards, live operations tools and interfaces, and game websites, including testing, hosting, and deployment.

• Guide planning with external studios. Bring infrastructure and deployment expertise from early scoping through launch. Review technical designs, define hosting, backend,…