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Hire vetted Backend & LiveOps Engineers who run the live-service backbone of your game: accounts, economy, events, telemetry and anti-cheat. Start within 4 working days.
Fig. 01Game Development
LiveOps Engineer
Game Development
AvailabilityShortlist in 48 h
Vetted LiveOps Engineer profiles free to start within 4 working days of signature. Counts appear in bands (5–10, 10–20, 20+); below 5 a role shows “Shortlist in 48 h” instead of a number.
Indicative monthly rate per seat
| Level | Experience | From (USD / month) |
|---|---|---|
| Mid | 4–6 years | 4,900 |
| Senior | 6–9 years | 6,440 |
| Lead | 9+ years | 8,360 |
Quotation-based. VAT shown separately. View in SAR, AED, USD or EUR. Quotes valid for 30 days.
Includes the Game Development practice rate of +10% on the base band.
Remote Pro Ai provides vetted Backend & LiveOps Engineers who run the live-service backbone of your game: accounts, economy, events, telemetry and anti-cheat. They design scalable services for auth, inventory, matchmaking and leaderboards on PlayFab, Nakama or custom Go stacks, and build LiveOps tooling for offers and segmentation.
Your LiveOps Engineer designs scalable game services (auth, inventory, matchmaking, leaderboards), and builds telemetry pipelines and dashboards for retention and revenue. Typical stack: Go, C#, Node.js, PlayFab and Nakama.
LiveOps engineers are among the scarcest talent in games worldwide, because live-service revenue depends on events, offers and stability long after launch. Publishers and esports platforms across the Gulf are building live titles, while Western studios outsource LiveOps to protect small core teams. Experienced game-backend engineers are hard to find.
Illustrative profiles that mirror the vetted bench for this role. Names, employers, full gate scores and video introductions, where recorded, are shared after the click-through NDA.
LiveOps Engineer
Senior7 years
Remote Pro Ai Vetted Verify credential RP-5705
LiveOps Engineer
Lead10 years
Remote Pro Ai Vetted Verify credential RP-4086
LiveOps Engineer
Mid6 years
Remote Pro Ai Vetted Verify credential RP-2467
Illustrative profiles that mirror the vetted bench for this role, anonymised. Names, employers, full scores and credentials are shared after the mutual NDA in the booking flow.
Designs scalable game services (auth, inventory, matchmaking, leaderboards)
Implements LiveOps tooling: events, offers, remote config, segmentation
Builds telemetry pipelines and dashboards for retention and revenue
Operates cloud infrastructure with cost and latency control
Implements anti-cheat and fraud prevention
Toolset on our bench
We test each capability in a live technical assessment scored by a practice lead. Nothing on this list is taken from a CV.
Mid4–6 years
Delivers well-scoped work independently within your architecture and standards.
from USD 4,900/month
Senior6–9 years
Owns a component or workstream end to end, reviews code and mentors.
from USD 6,440/month
Lead9+ years
Sets technical direction, leads the squad and reports to your leadership.
from USD 8,360/month
We never place junior profiles. A practice lead confirms every level, so the band you buy is the scope you get.
Typical certifications held by our LiveOps Engineer bench: AWS SA Associate. We verify every certificate with the issuing body before a profile reaches you, and list verified credentials on each profile card.
Remote Pro Ai information security: ISO/IEC 27001 certification in progress (target Q2 2027) · SOC 2 Type II planned for 2027. Evidence and policies are in the Trust Center.
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A game studio, Riyadh
multiplayer title with LiveOps
8 specialists · 12 months
Authoritative servers with rollback netcode, regional deployment, anti-cheat, console certification and LiveOps telemetry
MatchIQ™ is our vetting and matching engine: 3.4% of applicants pass 5 gates. The live assessment for this role tests the 5 capabilities above against a realistic task, not trivia.
Self-serve bookings receive a shortlist within 48 hours and enterprise requests get named candidates within 72 hours. After you approve a profile and sign, your specialist is working within 4 working days, whether the request is on the bench, off-bench or on-site. When fewer than 5 LiveOps Engineer profiles are on the bench, we shortlist from the wider vetted network in the same 48 hours.
Pricing is quotation-based and depends on level, hours and any on-site, clearance or data-residency needs. Current bands: Mid from USD 4,900/month · Senior from USD 6,440/month · Lead from USD 8,360/month. VAT is shown separately, quotes can be viewed in SAR, AED, USD or EUR, and every quotation is valid for 30 days. The Squad Builder shows your quote instantly.
Remote Pro Ai is contractually responsible for quality. Raise it at any time: a replacement starts within 4 working days; the full handover completes in under 14 days. Your first engagement also begins with a no-bill trial, one per company: 5 working days on self-serve bookings and 10 on enterprise contracts.
This role is offered at Mid, Senior and Lead level. We never place junior profiles. A practice lead confirms each specialist’s level through a live technical assessment and reference checks, so the band on your quotation reflects scope the person has already delivered rather than a job title on a CV.
PlayFab, Nakama and AWS GameLift, plus custom services in Go, C# or Node.js with Redis, Kafka and BigQuery. Engineers recommend managed platforms or custom builds based on your scale, features and cost curve, and many hold AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification.
Event scheduling, offer and store management, remote configuration, player segmentation and A/B testing, so designers and producers run live content without engineering releases. Engineers also build admin tools for customer support, refunds and player investigations. Every tool includes permissions and audit logs, so live changes are traceable.
Engineers design event schemas with design and economy teams, build pipelines into BigQuery or your warehouse, and create dashboards for retention, revenue and stability. Clean telemetry from day one is what makes data-driven LiveOps decisions possible after soft launch. Schema changes are versioned to protect historical comparisons.
Engineers keep the server authoritative for economy and progression, validate purchases server-side, detect anomalies with telemetry and rate limits, and integrate anti-cheat solutions. Our Case G-01 engagement combined authoritative servers and anti-cheat with 24/7 LiveOps coverage. Suspicious accounts are flagged for review rather than banned automatically.
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No card needed · 72 h free hold · No-bill trial: 5 working days self-serve, 10 in the Enterprise lane.
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