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Operations Engineer Intern

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Ops Engineering Internship

Demonware (Activision), Vancouver

May 2022

The Company

Demonware provides online software and services for gaming. We design, develop, and host customized services for some of the world’s biggest video game franchises, including Call of Duty and Tony Hawk.

We are a technology-driven company with a commitment to openness. This means collaborating to solve problems, the freedom to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins. We take the work seriously; ourselves, not so much.

Demonware has offices in Dublin, Ireland; Vancouver, Canada; and Shanghai, China, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc.

Big company challenges, small company culture

Demonware hosts millions of concurrently connected users. We’re a technology-driven company, with core focuses on Python, Linux, MySQL, C++, and Erlang. We solve tough problems on a day to day basis, and interns have a big impact on what we do. We’ve had interns commit code and have it running in production within the first three days of joining.

We also like to have fun while we’re working hard. We dress casually, we have flexible hours, and we have kickass coffee.

“We get to work with large distributed systems, debug them, and have to visualize them in our heads – things you wouldn’t have exposure to or get to touch in any other workplace. The work is challenging, and you get to work alongside highly experienced people.”

- Tyler Dixon, intern, 16 months

The Team

The CloudEng team is responsible for all things private and public cloud at Demonware: architecting, building foundations and on-boarding other engineering teams onto Google Cloud, managing and maintaining our on-premise private cloud, and offering services to enable Demonware developers create “cloud-ready” game services. We deal with low-level kernel tweaking, we develop self-serve tooling to support massive-scale deployments, and we build best practices into everything we do.

The Role

• Learning to implement foundational infrastructure (DNS, identity/authentication, artifact management, etc)
• Designing and implementing tools and automations running on distributed systems
• Identifying opportunities to implement automation to reduce time-consuming, manual work
• Performing root cause analyses and proposing and/or implementing appropriate engineering solutions to prevent or mitigate recurring incidents.
• Participating in design and code reviews.

We’re open to work terms of 8 or 12 months. Generally, the longer the term, the more in-depth the experience.

Requirements

• Excellent Linux skills
• Decent scripting skills
• Familiarity with source control (git preferred)
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills
• Can identify complex problems and find simple solutions
• Can clearly communicate technical concepts in plain English

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of networking technologies, e.g. TCP, UDP, DNS
• Experience with scale -- and the challenges that come with it
• Experience diving into code to understand how it’s supposed to work -- and why it doesn’t
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (specifically Jenkins)

We’re looking for the same qualities as Joel Spolsky: “smart, and gets things done”. For that reason, we welcome your application even if your work experience is limited and you haven’t yet built up a mile-long resume.

Please list any additional experience you have with Linux at home, any programming-related hobbies and resulting projects, any interesting school assignments you worked on, any open source involvement and a link to your code repository and/or blog.

Perks

• Complimentary breakfast, lunch, and drinks from a fully stocked kitchen (when onsite)
• City-center office location
• Vacation allowance
• Competitive pay
• Free games
• Intern Team Events

How to Apply

Please apply on the Demonware website : Please submit your resume, cover letter (optional but preferred) and a copy of your most recent school transcripts.

Please also mention your availability of work term.