about the company.
This is a very promising game studio and their games are very popular with gamers all over the world. They want to hire some engineers who have a gaming passion and insight into the gaming industry. This company has a great work life balance with the ability to work from home and very flexible hours.
about the job.
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Lead the engineering work in your expertise areas. Share knowledge with other team members, set up best engineering practices, and control code quality through reviews.
Design and implement large-scale, highly available backend systems that serve thousands to millions of concurrent players and aim for zero downtime.
Embrace modern container and cluster management technology to make our backend stack more elastic and robust.
Improve and maintain an agile and reliable development environment for the backend stack, so that people with different skillsets in the company can do social experiments easily, and new hires can ramp up quickly.
skills and experience required.
5+ year or more experience in backend development and deployment in a production environment.
Be able to extract useful information from different sources of logs, find correlations between multiple layers of systems, and diagnose failures, suspicious behaviors, and performance bottlenecks from bottom to top.
Be comfortable working with the Linux ecosystem; be fluent in Linux or macOS bash CLI tools and Python scripting.
Have deep knowledge of at least one of Go, Erlang, or C++. Have deep knowledge of at least one SQL and one NoSQL database.
Have deep knowledge of at least one distributed message queue system