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Infrastructure & Systems Architect
Paris & San Francisco
Role
As our Founding Infrastructure & Systems Architect, you'll be responsible for building the core systems that power our AI workflows, real-time game engine, and multiplayer experiences, all running at lightning speed and global scale.
You'll own the architecture that enables instant game creation, massive concurrency, and seamless AI-agent orchestration. You'll work at the intersection of infra, ops, and product, making the platform fast, reliable, and magical to use.
If you love designing high-leverage systems, building infra from zero, and shaping the future of creative tech, you'll thrive at Arcade.
What you'll do
- •Architect and scale infrastructure for our game engine, multiplayer backend, and agentic AI workflows
- •Design and optimize distributed systems for fast game generation and real-time collaboration
- •Build and maintain reliable pipelines for asset rendering, animation, and AI logic execution
- •Own DevOps tooling, CI/CD, observability, and performance monitoring
- •Make infra decisions that will shape the foundation of the company for years
- •Collaborate closely with full-stack engineers, AI researchers, and the founding team
You might be a fit if...
- •You've built scalable, production-grade infrastructure from scratch
- •Your workflow is already AI-augmented
- •You're fluent in distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud architectures
- •You've designed real-time systems (e.g. multiplayer, collaborative editing, agents)
- •You love building developer tooling and clean deployment pipelines
- •You enjoy being the bridge between product, infra, and AI
Bonus: 3D rendering infra, or agentic frameworks
What we offer
- •A defining role in reshaping how games are built and played by billions.
- •Founding team equity — build and own a piece of what you create.
- •Unlimited learning budget — courses, tools, coaching: whatever helps you grow.
- •Extreme autonomy & ownership — you'll lead, not follow.
- •Work with A-players — a team of builders, AI-native, and obsessed with the mission.
- •Team offsites & trips — we move fast, and we celebrate hard.