Cloud Platform Engineer at Rockstar Games
New York, NY
$120,000–$170,000
Jul 19, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A cloud engineering role within the IT Systems Engineering team, focused on evaluating and governing cloud platforms for safe, scalable adoption across the organization. Day-to-day work involves maintaining a catalogue of approved services, supporting development teams through proof-of-concept projects and into production, and coordinating with Security, Infrastructure, and Legal on architecture decisions, cost controls, and data handling guardrails. Suits engineers with a background in cloud-native infrastructure and automation.
Mid level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,400 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,300–11,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is titled simply 'Engineer' with no seniority modifier; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ years requirement and scope (POC support, governance, documentation) align with a Mid-level band.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible) and designs cloud architecture, pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers; however, it also has a strong IT operations and governance flavor (platform evaluation, cost controls, security guardrails, catalogue maintenance) that could fit 15-1244. 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes building and automating cloud-native systems rather than operating existing infrastructure.
The automation tools requirement lists Git, Pulumi, Terraform, and Ansible as interchangeable examples ('or similar'), so they are captured as a single skill with alternatives rather than separate hard gates.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Bachelor's degree… or equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Games industry experience, AI/LLM platform experience, and AI governance understanding are all listed under 'Pluses' and explicitly noted as not required.
No compensation range was disclosed in the posting.
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