Technical Team Lead, Citadel

Job Description

Who we are:

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We run every part of

Who we are:

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. 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, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.

The work we do together every day impacts almost half a billion players around the world. We tackle big company challenges with a small company feel. We are technology-driven with a culture of openness. This means collaborating to solve exciting challenges, enjoying the freedom to talk to anyone, and always feeling respected. We take the work seriously; ourselves, not so much.

What we do:

We build and operate the accounts and authorization services for Activision games. Our Python Services are built on top of Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Kafka and typically deployed to our own on premises hardware using Ansible, Puppet or git workflows. All our services are accessed from C++ clients which are integrated into Activision's bespoke game engines. Our team is based in Dublin and Vancouver in both the office and remote. This role is to lead the Dublin team, this is a hands on role that suits engineers interested in large scale, security and player protection.

What you'll do:
• Design and build highly-scalable services using open source technologies to enable crucial player to player interactions
• You will work on improving and extending the Demonware services for Accounts and Identity management and Privacy tooling.
• You will contribute to our technical direction and standards with engineers on the team and across Demonware
• You will design and implement features, run services and help our game studios integrate features into current and future games
• This is a DevOps role that includes maintaining and supporting the live services that you develop.

About you:
• You will guide and facilitate design and decision making around Demonware's online services and tech stack, experience of architecture design is required.
• You will collaborate with the project manager to map out and deliver team objectives and priorities for the year based on company goals and product roadmap
• You will prioritize and coordinate the work of the team to optimally work on features together and with other teams in Demonware
• You will support the team to own, operate and support the services and features they develop. Excellent programming skill is required, preferably Python and/or C++, but we're open to other similar languages (Java, C#, Go, Rust, etc.)
• You will provide technical mentorship to team members through software engineering best practices

Bonus:
• Experience with problems of large scale, and handling millions of connections
• Experience with continuous integration and agile methodologies
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Interest in travel to assist on-site integration at game studios and able to accommodate a flexible work schedule that includes being on-call

What Demonware Offers:

Relocation Support, generous paid vacation, pension and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gq59o6-18-217-4-206-42 in your application.