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Lead Data Site Reliability Engineer

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Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We work alongside engineers and creatives at our AAA partner studios and deliver the online and data services required by our extensive franchises. We have launched well over 100 games, and our services connect multiple millions of players every single day into epic entertainment experiences.

While Call of Duty continues to push us to build bigger and better systems year over year, we also have a solid history of supporting great franchises such as Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot, Destiny, Diablo, Guitar Hero, and Skylanders.

Our success comes from our dedicated and passionate people. Our work environment is welcoming and collaborative, we deliver on time and at scale.

That sounds amazing, but what kind of impact can I make?

Demonware's data team is responsible for creating the services and infrastructure that ingest the billions of events our games emit each day. At this scale the challenges we face empower our engineers to flex their creative engineering muscles. When we get things right the analysts, studios and developers that interact with our systems can rapidly go from question to insight without ever having to talk to us.

The Demonware data team also works with studios to model and instrument the things that matter. We work with our customers to ship data-forward applications, ensure compliance of data produced and be responsible for the quality throughout.

We are looking for Senior level SRE who can make the right decisions in all areas of the software creation process. This is a rare opportunity for you to establish the principles that create a standard for becoming an outstanding organization.

So exciting, what will my “day-to-day” look like?

• Applying systems and networking knowledge in solving large-scale distributed systems (Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark)
• Identifying areas to tune resource usage, improve stability and reduce costs
• Running blameless postmortems to identify gaps in monitoring and systems architecture
• Looking for opportunities to automate manual processes. Reducing the likelihood of human error and growing developer efficiency.
• Supporting and improving build pipelines with Jenkins and Argo
• Assisting developers in containerizing and running new applications in Kubernetes
• Adopting an everything-as-code method for infrastructure and configuration management
• Working with the team to define and measure Service-Level Objectives and Agreements

Sounds exciting, what would you like to see in my background?

• Sophisticated knowledge working with distributed systems at scale (solving, capacity management, performance tuning).
• Experience with public cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP).
• Experience with container-based workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of distributed message bus technology (Kafka, PubSub).
• Experience with build and deployment tooling (Jenkins, Argo, Artifactory).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Foundation in system and network fundamentals (Linux, TCP/IP, VPCs, Firewalls, DNS).
• Comfortable with at least one computer language (Python, Java, Golang).
• Experience in logging, monitoring and metrics systems (Elasticsearch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus).

Bonus Points:

• Experience tuning and solve the JVM
• Skilled with Big Data (Spark, Airflow)
• Experience working with streaming frameworks (Flink, Beam)
• Experience writing operators in Kubernetes

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!

Activision is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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