Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff Gameplay Engineer role stands out in SaaS because it applies subscription software disciplines to a cloud-based engine product, AtomEngine, built as part of a broader workflow platform. The work sits at the intersection of real-time simulation, multiplayer-style networking, and productized infrastructure, where reliability, performance, and maintainability matter as much as feature delivery in a live environment.
From a SaaS career perspective, the position offers durable experience in designing systems that operate continuously, evolve safely, and serve multiple stakeholders over time. Architecture decisions around client server behavior, state replication, latency, and scale map closely to challenges seen in real-time collaboration tools and other always-on SaaS products. The emphasis on documentation, cross-team technical guidance, and raising engineering quality also aligns with senior IC expectations in mature software organizations.
This is best suited to an engineer who prefers broad technical ownership over a narrow feature lane and is comfortable shaping direction across concurrent initiatives. It will fit someone who enjoys partnering with design, product, and QA to translate ambiguous concepts into shippable systems, and who values mentorship as part of staff-level impact in remote execution.
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Job Description
Location
United States | Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Battle Road Digital
Compensation
- Staff Game Play Engineer$205K – $255K • Offers Equity
Equity: Share in the company's success.
Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first organization* with flexible work hours and unlimited PTO.
(*note that some roles are in-person, on-site with customers)
Comprehensive Health Coverage: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match to secure your future.
Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100% regardless of state.
Company Retreats: Annual company summit trips.
Home Office Budget: $1,000 per year for home office improvements.
About Onebrief
Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient.
We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world.
Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $320m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $2.15B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most.
Battle Road Digital, part of Onebrief, applies state-of-the-art innovations and experience from the video game industry to build the future of simulations, modeling, and operations with AtomEngine – our proprietary cloud-based game engine that’s making the world playable.
About the Role
As a Staff Gameplay Engineer, you'll be a senior technical leader on the AtomEngine team — setting the architectural direction for gameplay systems, providing cross-team technical guidance, and directly improving the quality and velocity of everything we ship. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad organizational influence.
What You'll Do
Own and drive gameplay systems architecture across AtomEngine, providing technical direction on complex, cross-cutting problems
Provide architectural input across multiple concurrent projects — raise the quality ceiling and hit rate on feature delivery
Collaborate closely with designers and PMs to shape features from concept through delivery, ensuring technical feasibility, performance, and schedule alignment
Implement and optimize gameplay systems using Godot, GDScript, and C++
Design with a deep understanding of client/server architecture, state replication, latency, and scale
Partner with QA and testing teams to validate features, identify edge cases, and drive quality outcomes
Mentor mid and junior engineers — invest in the team's growth, not just your own output
Write and maintain clear technical documentation to support long-term maintainability and cross-team collaboration
What We Look For
7+ years of game engine or gameplay engineering experience, with demonstrated Staff or equivalent scope
Deep familiarity with and experience tailoring game engines — Godot, Unity, Unreal, or custom
Sees and cultivates emergent behaviors across multiple interacting systems
Experience shipping and supporting live service games at scale
Proven ability to architect complex gameplay systems and communicate technical decisions to cross-functional stakeholders
Track record of raising engineering quality and velocity across a team, not just within your own work
Low ego — you're here to make the product and the team better
U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements
Nice to Haves
Experience with military simulation, constructive modeling, or defense software
Familiarity with entity component systems or simulation-at-scale architecture
Experience working on real-time-strategy (RTS) games
Experience working alongside government customers
Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies
Please note that Onebrief does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement Onebrief explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Onebrief.
Compensation Range: $205K - $255K
