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How much do remote educational game developer jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 27, 2026, the average yearly pay for remote educational game developer in Portland, OR is $115,034.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $86,400.00 and $131,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Remote Educational Game Developer vs Remote Game Designer?

AspectRemote Educational Game DeveloperRemote Game Designer
Required CredentialsBachelor's in Game Design, Education, or related field; programming skillsBachelor's in Game Design, Graphic Design, or related field; creative skills
Work EnvironmentRemote, collaborative teams, educational institutions or edtech companiesRemote, creative teams, gaming companies or studios
Employer & Industry UsageEdtech companies, educational publishers, nonprofitsGaming studios, entertainment companies, independent developers
Common Search & ComparisonYesYes

While both roles involve game development, Remote Educational Game Developers focus on creating games that promote learning and educational outcomes, often working closely with educators. Remote Game Designers concentrate on the overall game concept, mechanics, and user experience, primarily within entertainment or commercial gaming industries. Understanding these differences helps job seekers identify roles aligned with their skills and career goals.

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Infographic showing various Remote Educational Game Developer job openings in Portland, OR as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 81% Full Time, 6% Part Time, 1% Temporary, and 12% Contract. Highlights an 83% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 13% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $115,034 per year, or $55.3 per hour.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Discogs

Beaverton, OR • Remote

$140K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Retirement, PTO

Posted 19 days ago

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: REMOTE US

Compensation: $140,000 / year


Description Who We’re Looking For
The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team’s centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes.
Location While we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL
Compensation Fixed Position Rate: $140,000
This role carries a single, non-negotiable Fixed Position Rate to ensure absolute equity and eliminate negotiation bias.
Key ResponsibilitiesWhat You’ll AccomplishReasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout
  • Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools
  • Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS
  • Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
  • Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas
  • Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness
  • Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base
  • Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools
  • Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment
  • Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
  • Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows
  • Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety

Skills, Knowledge and ExpertiseWhat You’ll Contribute
Required (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack):
  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
  • Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)
  • AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)
  • FinOps and cloud cost optimization
  • Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
  • Agentic AI (Claude Code)
  • Scripting (Shell, Python)
  • Track record of collaboration and mentorship
  • Excellent written communication and documentation skills
  • Continuous learning
  • Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems
Preferred:
  • Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC)
  • Flink
  • Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS)
  • Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance)
  • Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI)
  • GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation)
  • REST API
  • GitOps (ArgoCD)
  • Hashicorp Vault
  • Redis
  • Memcached
Education & Experience:
  • A Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.
  • 5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.

BenefitsWhat We Provide
  • Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
  • 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
  • 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
  • 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
  • Monthly wellness allowance
  • Annual professional and personal development allowance
  • Work from home office set-up and expense allowances 
  • Flexible work location opportunities 
  • Employer matching toward charitable contributions

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