Infrastructure & Systems Architect San Francisco & Paris

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 have built scalable, production-grade infrastructure from scratch
• Your workflow is already AI-augmented
• You are fluent in distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud architectures
• 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.

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