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Service Reliability Engineer (SRE)
2 years ago
Working with both our Live Operations and Development teams, you will manage online services and bridge the relationship between the dev who makes the games and the players who love them. You will be responsible to monitor, troubleshoot, tune and scale up our systems and services. Sounds like a match?
Kabam Vancouver is looking for a Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join us!
In this role, you can expect to:
- Practice engineering for reliability and availability of game services utilizing Cloud infrastructure
- Drive the direction of our operational architecture, taking into account our dedication to maximum reliability for players and internal customers alike
- Ensure all components are highly scalable and maintainable
- Act as front-line dev-support in an on-call rotation for live game issues
- Own the features, components and tooling
- Monitor and improve server performance and health
- Troubleshoot for Root Causes for service outages and issues
- Provide mentorship on best practices for backend operations and integration
In order to be successful for this role, we are looking for:
- Demonstrable capacity for an investigative approach and keen to learn new technologies
- Ability to analyze requirements and make corresponding design decisions
- Demonstrated excellence in communicating within and across teams
- Ability to complete complex tasks with minimal supervision
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Solid understanding of fundamental technologies, e.g. TCP/IP, Linux/Unix internals
- Experience with server development(NodeJS, Ruby On Rails, PHP).
- Experience with Scripting (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby)
- Knowledge of distributed Database systems (MongoDB, Redis)
- Solid knowledge of Git.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps services
In addition, it is nice to have:
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Strong experience in dealing with applications at scale
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, NewRelic, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Stackdriver and CloudWatch
- Automation / scripting skills and a desire to automate all the things
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience working on a RESTful API system
- Experience in performance profiling
- Experience supporting an online game
Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and continue to entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games for mobile devices. They merge consumer behaviour with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the console in every player’s pocket.
Kabam has partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, San Francisco and Austin. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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