This job listing expired on Dec 5, 2020
Overview
This role focuses on feature development related to gathering, analyzing, and reacting to player data in real-time to enhance our game experiences.
The position will be responsible for building systems that will enable data driven features that interact with our games and players in real-time. For service development, you will mostly use Python or Go, and we have a strong focus on AWS Managed services to accelerate development
Responsibilities
- Implement big data systems capable of interacting with operational systems supporting games and players in real-time
- Manage the storage and manipulation of player and game data while always maintaining a focus on privacy and data protection
- Write clean, maintainable code that is scalable, reliable, and observable
- Support systems in a 24x7 environment including troubleshooting, hot fixing, and root cause analysis
- Actively provide code review and feedback for other developers
- Learn new technologies and programming languages as needed
- Ensure consistency with security policy standards and security plan
- Understand and define infrastructure as code to support systems developed
- Collaborate with other engineers and engineering teams to delivery high quality, complex systems – this includes BI, Ops Infra, Security, QA, NOC, and Game Developers
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or equivalent experience
- 3 years of experience as a software engineer
- Possess a strong technical background and deep knowledge of software engineering principles, exceptional problem solving, design, programming, and testing skills
- Strong working knowledge of many systems used to store or move data (e.g. pub/sub messaging, data streaming systems, NOSQL, RDBMS, etc.)
- Strong working knowledge of big data solutions and visualization systems
- Working knowledge of machine learning and other decisioning making systems
- Experience building cloud infrastructure and operating live systems
- Experience with version control systems (Github preferred)
- Experience supporting live systems at very high scale
- Customer focused design of APIs and integration requirements; make integration easy
- Experience integrating online services
- Deep understanding of programming a variety of languages and how they operate under challenging conditions
- Desire to learn new languages and technology
- Pragmatic approach to providing engineering solutions that solve business needs
- Excellent written and verbal skills