Senior Software Engineer - Monitoring Automation

Job Description

Who we are:

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We run every part of the players' online experience, from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards, for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.

The work we do together every day impacts almost half a billion players around the world. We solve big company challenges with a small company feel. We are technology-driven with a culture of openness. This means collaborating to solve interesting challenges, enjoying the freedom to talk to anyone, and always feeling respected. We take the work seriously; ourselves, not so much.

What we do:

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join the Platform Team. We build monitoring infrastructure for complex distributed systems. Using a combination of open source projects and extensive custom software our focus is on improving the experience of on call engineers during outages and incidents. Our monitoring systems are high scale, and highly available. Many companies struggle with high volumes of low value alerts. We are working towards building human-aware systems to improve actionability of system alerting, with a high priority on reducing alert fatigue

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.

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d52yn0-3-15-190-144-42 in your application.