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AppLovin is a global leader in mobile entertainment. Its studios create popular, immersive mobile games and its technology brings games to more players around the world. Since 2012, the company’s platform has been instrumental in driving the explosive growth of mobile games, resulting in a richer ecosystem and more games played by millions of people every day. AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with several offices globally. Learn more at our website.

AppLovin is one of Inc.‘s Best Workplaces and a recipient of the 2019 Glassdoor Top CEO employee’s choice award. The San Francisco Business Times’ awarded AppLovin one of the Bay Area’s Best Places to Work and the Workplace Wellness Award which recognises businesses that are leaders in improving worker well-being.

Applovin is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Game Engineering vertical who will play a major role in interfacing Operations team and Game Engineering overall. You’ll be tasked with maintaining our complex infrastructure and optimizing our Game environment for maximum uptime. You’ll also monitor and build out our systems to ensure health and scalability in a fast paced environment and you’ll have a strong say in our infrastructure decisions moving forward. This is your chance to be a part of mobile history!

Responsibilities

  • Create, monitor, and scale our operations efforts through innovative automation approaches, configuration management
  • Develop and monitor our global infrastructure as we scale internationally
  • Build custom tools and instrumentation that ensure maximum system uptime and health
  • Research new industry practices and explore the newest technologies such as containerization, docker, kubernetes
  • Deploy and manage large scale kubernetes clusters serving live mobile games
  • Play with: Puppet, Python, SaltStack, ELK stack, MySQL, Redis, Nginx, Graphite, Sensu, Prometheus
  • Taking part in on-call rotation to respond to production issues

Necessary Qualifications and Skills:

  • 8+ years of experience with Unix/Linux and system administration related tasks
  • 2+ years of application development
  • 2+ years of experience with networking systems and technologies
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
  • Strong knowledge of system architecture, performance tuning concepts, and web applications
  • Passionate about automation and configuration management (Puppet, SaltStack, Chef, etc.)
  • Scripting and programming mastery across a variety of languages (Python, Golang)
  • Expertise in large scale, high volume operations environments
  • Strong foundation with relational database technologies and caching techniques
  • Lastly proactive in solving problems, possess excellent communication skills and develop solutions with end-users in mind

Desired Qualifications:

  • Proven experience in building applications that can automate operational efforts
  • Experience evangelizing best practices around reliability and scalability

AppLovin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.