SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems for mobile games.
• Lead technical design, implementation, debugging and optimization of game features.
• Collaborate with game designers and frontend software engineers for game feature implementation.
• Identify potential technical risks and provide technical advice for mitigation.
• Ensure the security and integrity of backend systems and user data.
• Write clean, maintainable, performant and well-documented code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backend-related issues in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with other senior engineers to establish coding standards, best practices and development processes.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for code, systems, tools, processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience building backend systems or game services
• Experience on cloud computing platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with designing, developing scalable, production-ready architecture for large systems from scratch
• Experience building high-quality software in languages like Go, Java, Python, Javascript
• Experience with building RESTful APIs.
• Solid understanding of game architecture, design patterns, and software engineering principles.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Passion for gaming and a drive to create engaging experiences for players.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with building backend systems for mobile games.
• Prior experience in game development.
• Leadership experience and the ability to mentor junior engineers.