We are Mythical Games. A Venture-backed next-generation game technology company at the intersection of video games and economics led by industry veterans. Our goal is to lead the industry with the launch of exceptional video game experiences that leverage distributed ledger technology, while also providing a platform of robust tools that will allow any other game developers to do the same.

Our Site Reliability Engineering team is looking for a talented and driven Site Reliability Engineer to work with our awesome team based in our Los Angeles, CA office. The SRE in this role is software engineering-focused and will work alongside developers to create a bridge between development and operations using their expertise in scalable application design, release engineering, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation.

The right candidate for this job (is):

An experienced software developer with an interest in applying SRE\DevOps methodologies
Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services
Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them
Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes
Smart, highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottom-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment
Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams
An unwavering passion for meeting demands and delivering an epic customer service

This role requires solid experience in scalable application design, cloud computing environments, and hands-on technical skills. This position is expected to:

Ensure high availability and performance of backend services
Build and maintain tooling to make code and configuration deployments self-serve for the development team
Collaborate with the development and operations teams to design the infrastructure required for deploying a scalable and reliable application
Regularly review existing infrastructure for opportunities for service improvement, cost reduction, and increased security
Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management partners to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases
Ensure operational visibility into applications by adding instrumentation and creating dashboards for proactive monitoring and failure resolution
Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure the success of uptime-critical applications

Requirements:

Prior experience in performance optimization of distributed microservice applications (preferably gRPC microservices backing JSON REST APIs)
Demonstrated proficiency in at least one core programming language such as Java, Elixir, Python, Golang or C++. Knowledge of JVM performance tuning and the Spring Boot framework is a plus
Prior experience managing and operating Linux-based VMs on cloud computing platforms such as GCP or AWS
Experience with management and orchestration of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes
Working knowledge of relational DBMS such as Postgres and MySQL. Experience with distributed implementations of relational databases such as Spanner, CockroachDB or Aurora is a plus
Experience with CI\CD orchestration pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, as well as familiarity with deployment strategies like blue\green deployments, canary releases, etc...
Experience with dashboard technologies such as Grafana
Ability to write clean, easy to debug, well documented, and efficient code
Effective at working in cross-discipline teams to achieve a shared mission
This position is part of a distributed team based out of our Kansas City, MO office, which requires the ability to effectively collaborate with colleagues remotely

Pluses:

Experience with OAuth and identity providers like Keycloak
Interest or experience with blockchain technology