DevOps / SRE Engineer (H/F) - BCN

Madbox is a mobile gaming company, creating and publishing its own games worldwide. Since 2018 Madbox has gathered more than 300 million players, still growing. We are looking for top talents with mad skills, a mad passion and a mad ambition to join us.

The game has been scaling a lot since the launch and is now supporting millions of monthly users. All these players are interactive with backend systems that we have developed internally and deployed based on our internal knowledge.

But the stakes are getting high and we cannot afford to have incidents on these services because it could damage the players experience. We are now looking for someone that has some expertise on deploying online applications that will be consumed by millions of players and would hold on under a heavy load.

- Starts with meeting your team, discovering who is who and engaging with everyone involved (or not) in your missions.

- Continues with getting familiar with our stack, discovering our environment, tools and processes.

- You will of course play our games and learn more about how we are making them the “Madbox way” !

- Everything will be made for you to get you up to speed, take ownership and be ready to tackle your missions.

- Design the backend infrastructure to host our Gaming Backend projects (APIs, Game Servers, Storage solutions…).

- Setup the monitoring services to allow tracking the health metrics of our backend applications.

- Setup alerts and watch over the health of our backend applications to raise an alarm every time an issue occurs.

- Alert the right team.

- Give a clear criticality information to define how quickly the issue needs to be solved

- Define SLA processes for each different level of criticality that can be followed to keep the service available.

- Provide as much context as you can from the metrics and logs you see on the dashboards.

- Setup our backend application to scale up & down automatically to optimize our cost.

- Follow up and make sure that our services scale properly and be ready to operate the scaling up / down manually if necessary.

- Identify bottlenecks in our backend applications and recommend optimization that the Gaming Backend Developers team could make to optimize the application.

- Keep a vigil eye on the solutions available on the market.

- You have 3 years of hands-on experience in a DevOps / SRE position.

- You are data-oriented, as you measure the impact of the solutions you implement.

- You have proven experience at deploying applications that are accessible to millions of users.

- You are fully proficient in English.

- You’re passionate about building systems that scale.

- You focus on stability and availability.

- You’re a team player who can explain their work and share their knowledge with other technical people.

- A call with a recruiter

- A call with the hiring manager

- A home assignment

- A review of the test with the hiring manager and someone from the automation team

- A meet the team interview

All our offers are extended within 48 hours maximum

or/and in Barcelona, Utopicus, Plaça de Gal·la Placídia, 1, 3, 🇪🇸

Madbox is a fast-growing mobile game company based in Paris and Barcelona, creating and publishing its own games. The story of Madbox started when two video game studios fell in love with each other during the summer 2018.

A few months after the beginning of this promance , Madbox first in-house titles hit the top charts of the App Store and Google Play Store worldwide, ranking in #1 positions in more than 100 countries. Since then, Madbox has gathered more than 300 million players, still growing fast. To fuel this creative and operations growth, Madbox develops cutting-edge automation systems internally to shorten production times and drive accurately its performance at large scale.

Madbox will collect your personal data for the purposes of managing our recruitment related activities. That is why, Madbox may use your personal data in relation to the evaluation and selection of applicants. Your information will be accessible to recruiting & people teams in Paris & Barcelona. By applying, you expressly give your consent.