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DevOps Programmer (Game Team - Multiplayer)

DevOps Programmer (Game Team - Multiplayer)

Why Naughty Dog?

For nearly 40 years, Naughty Dog has been crafting best-selling, critically acclaimed games that constantly push the boundaries of narrative, gameplay, and technology. We’ve been busy at the Kennel, most recently releasing The Last of Us Part I, a complete and faithful remake of the original game, rebuilt from the ground up and fully optimized for the PlayStation 5 and PC. As a part of the Naughty Dog legacy, you’ll be continuing the development of extraordinary and enduring experiences for a broad, global range of audiences.

Naughty Dog games have long been lauded for their evocative, character-driven stories and attention to detail. We are committed to innovation within our games and as such have curated some of the top creative and technically innovative minds in the industry. We welcome a diverse group of candidates and believe that a broad range of cultural and life experiences contribute to the overall well-being and success of the studio and the titles we craft together.

Deploying the backend services to support a standalone multiplayer title is an incredible undertaking. A critical part of the business is maintaining the player’s trust that they will always have access to the game and won’t ever lose their progress. As DevOps, you will be instrumental in protecting that trust. You will help develop our monitoring and alert solutions, so we find out about service issues before players even notice. You will be very tightly integrated with our backend programming team to make sure applications are deployed safely, with a standardized pipeline to achieve a consistency between release versions. You will also develop the lines of defense against outages with runbooks and work with backend programmers to build the tuning knobs to keep services running smoothly through a variety of load scenarios.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the backend team to build the infrastructure for deploying our backend services to multiple regions covering the globe
• Maintain the monitoring infrastructure that provides a view of the health of the service and alerts for outages that would affect the player experience
• Diagnose issues with interdependencies of various services in order to improve latency and reliability
• Be part of an on-call support team, acting as one of the lines of defense to keep the service running once alerts come in

Requirements & Skills:

• Expert knowledge of AWS cloud technologies including but not limited to VPCs, EC2, DynamoDB, and S3
• Experience writing programming languages such as Python and Go
• Worked with monitoring tools like DataDog to understand the health of a globally deployed service
• Thorough understanding of network protocols used for online games
• Strong knowledge of Linux including an ability to write Shell Scripts
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines

Pluses:

• Passion for Online Games

As part of the Naughty Dog application process, candidates should expect to be given a technical interview.

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

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