Software Engineer- Data Centre Operations

Job Description

Who We Are

Demonware is an independently run studio of Activision. We develop and operate every part of the players' online experience, from logging in to matchmaking, enabling in-game transactions and playing with friends across all platforms. We do so for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, and Diablo.

If you're passionate about working with some of the biggest AAA studios, crafting large-scale systems and online multiplayer technology in a collaborative environment then we'd love to hear from you!

About This Role

We have an opening in our Vancouver office (or remote in the west coast time zone) for a highly qualified Software Engineer with comprehensive distributed systems and Data Centre operations experience.

The Demonware Platform department builds tools and infrastructure to operate a hybrid cloud environment. We are looking for a full stack developer who loves solving tough problems with a mix of technology types. The Forge team writes tools and develops business process automation that enables Demonware engineers to supervise, maintain, and update both containerized, and traditional VM based workloads.

Your job will involve planning, crafting, implementing and maintaining both cloud and DC based services that can run and supervise tens of thousands of server instances across a broad range of technologies.

The responsibilities of this role include:
• Writing highly available software that considers the challenges of large-scale distributed systems.
• Developing, evolving, scaling, productizing and supporting DC inventory, and automated operations supervising tooling.
• Building and maintaining services in Kubernetes and Docker.
• Understanding the purpose and impact of Demonware's diverse array of interconnected services at a high level. Over time, you will be required to reason about the entire Demonware ecosystem in order to propose meaningful improvements.
• Leading and/or actively participating in key infrastructure integration projects involving multiple teams.
• Load testing, fixing and debugging, often in collaboration with various internal teams.
• Performing root cause analysis and proposing and/or implementing appropriate engineering solutions to prevent or mitigate recurring incidents.
• Active participation in design and code reviews.
• Participation in a tier-1 on-call support rotation.

These are some of the qualities we look for in an ideal candidate:
• Excellent collaboration skills, with a strong emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion principles.
• Excellent Python skills.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in Kubernetes.
• Ansible, Terraform, Puppet or Salt experience. (We use Puppet and Ansible.)
• Experience using self-serve fully automated deployments using Helm, and Jenkins or other CI/CD tools.
• Application design and prototyping experience.
• Hybrid environment experience - we work with a combination of VM workloads deployed via puppet, and Kubernetes workloads deployed with CI/CD tooling.

If you enjoy working on hard problems, building upon industry-leading technology, Demonware is the place for you. We are a team of especially hard-working people that, despite its small size, is able to accomplish a lot. We do this by making sure every individual plays a major role at Demonware. We look forward to hearing from you.
Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered!

What Demonware Offers:

Relocation Support, 25 days of vacation and 3 bonus days in December, Pension and excellent medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.

This position is located in Vancouver, Canada or full time remote.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb80y6-3-22-240-205-42 in your application.