The need
Role: Infrastructure & Systems Architect.
Location: Paris & San Francisco.
Employment type: Full-time.
About Arcade: Arcade is building the future of game development: instant, accessible, and magical. Its mission is to let anyone create and publish a game in seconds, with no code and no blockers. Arcade is creating a platform where game creation feels like play, where ideas become playable worlds instantly, and where AI, real-time engines, and agentic workflows make creative game building available to billions of new creators. The team is small, fast-moving, AI-native, and backed by leading minds in gaming and tech.
What you'll do: This person builds the core systems that power Arcade's AI workflows, real-time game engine, and multiplayer experiences at high speed and global scale. They own the architecture for instant game creation, massive concurrency, and seamless AI-agent orchestration. They will architect and scale infrastructure for the game engine, multiplayer backend, and agentic AI workflows; design and optimize distributed systems for fast game generation and real-time collaboration; build and maintain pipelines for asset rendering, animation, and AI logic execution; own DevOps tooling, CI/CD, observability, and performance monitoring; make foundational infrastructure decisions; and collaborate with full-stack engineers, AI researchers, and the founding team.
What we're looking for: Arcade is looking for someone who has built scalable production-grade infrastructure from scratch and works with an AI-augmented workflow. They should be fluent in distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud architectures; have designed real-time systems such as multiplayer, collaborative editing, or agents; love developer tooling and deployment pipelines; and bridge product, infrastructure, and AI. Bonus points for 3D rendering infrastructure or agentic frameworks.
What Arcade offers: A defining role in reshaping how games are built and played, founding team equity, an unlimited learning budget, extreme autonomy and ownership, work with AI-native builders, and team offsites and trips.
Official application link: https://www.joinarcade.ai/careers/infrastructure-systems-architect