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Expert Software Engineer, DEPCON
2 years ago
Job Title:
Expert Software Engineer, DEPCONRequisition ID:
R007121Job Description:
Who we are:
Demonware is an independently-run part of Activision Blizzard. 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.
We are looking for an Expert Software Engineer and you'll be joining our DEPCON team at Demonware, based out of our Vancouver office. You will work with our team of Kubernetes Experts and make direct contributions to Bonzai! in order to integrate it with GCP/GKE in as seamless a fashion as possible for our users and our solutions are currently available in our data centres and in AWS.
If you’re excited about working with technologies for low-latency, large scale systems in a collaborative environment, then we’d love to hear from you!
Your responsibilities:
- Evolving, scaling, productizing and supporting Bonzai! on GKE to enable multiple critical Demonware services serving millions of concurrent online users.
- Assisting in the migration effort from AWS to GCP/GKE.
- Troubleshooting and debugging, often in collaboration with various internal teams.
- Performing root cause analyses and proposing and/or implementing appropriate engineering solutions to prevent or mitigate recurring incidents.
- Active participation in design and code reviews primarily related to but not limited to GKE integration.
- Active participation in design and code reviews.
- Participation in a best-effort on-call support rotation.
Your Profile:
- Strong Go programming skills, and an insatiable desire to automate all the things
- Experience developing and deploying software integrating with the Kubernetes APIs and custom resource definitions (CRD)
- Experience developing and deploying large scale distributed systems in public or private cloud (hundreds to thousands of instances)
- Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies, and in particular Kubernetes, in a production environment
- Experience contributing to and participating in the open source community, in particular CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and related projects
- Solid understanding of fundamental technologies, e.g. TCP/IP, Linux/Unix internals
- Proven ability to take initiative for continuous improvement
- A passion for delighting internal customers
- A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent relevant experience
What Demonware Offers:
Relocation Support, generous paid vacation, RRSP matching program and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents and perks.
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