Site Reliability Engineer, Database Platform

Job Description

Would you get excited about creating reliable and scalable online services and features, to be used by millions of players all around the world?

Demonware is an independently-run studio within Activision. 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, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.
Our services impact almost half a billion players. We solve big company challenges with a small company feel.

Do you love engineering, online/multiplayer technology, games, and working with other senior technical staff? Then we'd love to hear from you!

About This Role:

You would be joining our Database team, who are responsible for the standard database platform. Demonware has thousands of database nodes, and we deal with the difficult challenge of making database management easier for our colleagues in Demonware.

We provide our technology to other internal teams in a self-service model to configure and deploy for their services & game titles. You would be helping to evolve this model as we make more use of cloud technology (kubernetes), and help minimize our customers' operational overhead.

Day to Day:
• Maintain and evolve our database operational platform to improve our self-serve model and evolve it for cloud technologies
• Liaise with other teams who run Database tech, ensuring their requirements are met in a timely appropriate manner
• Drive the direction of our architecture, taking into account our dedication to maximum reliability for players and internal customers alike
• Ensure all components are highly scalable and maintainable
• Own the features, components and tooling being built
• Partner with other engineers to troubleshoot problems with our technology, and provide an excellent customer experience
• Provide mentorship on best practices for backend operations and integration

What Demonware Offers:

Relocation support, 25 days of vacation and 3 bonus days in December, Free Activision Games, Flexible working practices, pension, top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents. To read more: https://demonware.net/careers

Player Profile:
• Relevant work experience, including in a high-volume or critical production service environment
• Experience working at scale - thousands of servers running a high-volume or critical production service environment
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Automation / scripting skills and a desire to automate all the things
• Comfortable with at least one scripting language, e.g. Python or Ruby.
• Experience working with container orchestration e.g. Kubernetes
• Experience with at least one major database MySQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc
• Solid understanding of fundamental technologies, e.g. TCP/IP, Linux/Unix internals
• Experience with configuration management systems, e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Terraform
• 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

Bonus XP:
• Experience working with public cloud providers and cloud technologies
• Experience in monitoring and metrics systems, e.g. Nagios, Zabbix, Graphite, Cacti
• A background in Software Engineering

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d52p83-18-218-169-50-42 in your application.