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Senior DevOps Engineer

Location
🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Salary
$120,000 - $140,000 per year
Level
Senior (5+ years)
Contract
Full Time
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Rushdown Studios
Privately Held

Rushdown Studios is a U.S. based co-development studio founded in 2021 by engineers who led development teams on PUBG and partnered with AAA game studios for a decade before that. Built by players who live for multiplayer games, Rushdown partners with studios to bring awesome ideas to life and make the kind of games players will keep coming back to forever. As an official partner of Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and Unreal Engine, Rushdown builds for every major platform. With a majority of the team headquartered in Saratoga Springs, NY and more team members spread across the U.S., Rushdown has veteran developers who’ve shipped multiple games over many years together.

Headquarters
Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Headcount
11-50 people
Founded
2021
rushdownstudio.com
Rushdown Studios on LinkedIn

Founded by games industry veterans, Rushdown was created with a simple philosophy in mind: We believe that when talented developers are consistently challenged and given clear ownership of their work, extraordinary things will happen. As a co-dev game studio, we now focus on solving some of the most difficult problems that face multiplayer games — and we bring our experience working on games like PUBG, League of Legends, and Rocket League with us. We truly love the work we do and we want to funnel our passion and expertise into features and games that billions of players will enjoy worldwide.

Our Role

Rushdown Studios is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join us in support of an existing partner studio! In this role, you’ll work alongside our existing team to improve infrastructure reliability and automate infrastructure creation and tools for a large-scale game development project.

Our ideal candidate is a self-motivated and demonstrated team player with the ability to juggle and jump between different tasks as necessary. Game development experience is preferred due to the nature of this project, but it’s not mandatory; we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements listed below!

Work Location: For this role, we are only able to consider candidates willing to work from our office in Saratoga Springs, NY on a hybrid basis (e.g., Tuesday-Thursday). This is not a fully remote position and, in this case, Rushdown is not able to offer relocation assistance to successful candidates located outside of a reasonable commuting distance.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure for game development and live-service games using one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Deploy infrastructure-as-code for cloud resources using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, or Azure Resource Manager templates.
  • Promote cloud security best practices and compliance requirements for gaming infrastructure.
  • Design and develop CI/CD pipelines for builds and deployments.
  • Respond to live support issues for a live-service game.
  • Empower multiple teams through development environment automation.

Requirements

  • Three (3) years of professional experience with Amazon Web Services.
  • Experience scripting with languages like Python, PowerShell, or Groovy.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Understanding of game packaging and deployment requirements for different platforms.
  • Experience compiling code and/or managing pipelines that compile code.
  • Experience monitoring and profiling applications (DataDog, CloudWatch, Prometheus).
  • Ability to debug unexpected issues that arise during development.
  • Willingness to selflessly put player experiences first before even your own code and ego.
  • Proactive approach to communication, particularly when it comes to unblocking yourself and navigating obstacles as part of a team.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with build systems like Jenkins, TeamCity, or Azure DevOps, specifically for game development projects.
  • Experience working with additional cloud providers (e.g., Azure, GCP).
  • Knowledge of game development workflows and asset management.
  • Experience with the Go programming language.
  • Experience running multi-cloud applications.
  • Previous work using version control for game development (e.g., Perforce, Git LFS).

Benefits

  • Compensation: $120,000-140,000/year. Please note that final base pay will ultimately depend upon a combination of factors, including your prior experience, general qualifications, and broader skill set.
  • 9 Paid Holidays plus Flexible PTO and Annual Winter Break Closure
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Annual Video Game Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Parental Leave

EEO Statement

At Rushdown Studios, we believe that we're made better by each of the different perspectives that our team members bring to the table. We said it above, and we'll say it again: We want to hear from you, even if you don't meet all of the requirements for a specific role.

We're also an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race; color; ancestry or national origin; religion; physical or mental disability; age; sex, including pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender, gender identity, or gender expression; medical condition; genetic information; or marital, military, or veteran status.

Senior DevOps Engineer