Sr DevOps Engineer

A BIT ABOUT US

We are a bold new game studio with a mission to build cutting edge AAA entertainment for the 21st century. Our founders are veterans in the online games, social games, and crypto fields. We are fully funded and building a dream team of developers who want to work with the best of the best and take their careers to the next level. See press coverage: Bloomberg, VentureBeat, CoinDesk.

THE MISSION

As a DevOps Engineer, you will join a small, fully remote team to work on backend infrastructure for an exciting Multiplayer Action RPG title as well as our marketplace infrastructure. In this role, you will work on game-supporting services and features as well as web facing products interacting with users directly. Our stack includes Docker, AWS Elastic Container Service, Terraform, Node.js, Typescript, MongoDB, React, PostgreSQL, and C++ among others. You will be working with the game and backend engineering teams to architect and maintain stable, reliable, and scalable backend infrastructure.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with stakeholders company wide to provide services that enhance user experience for the development team, as well as our end-users.
• Design and build operational infrastructure to support games and marketplace products for Big Time Studios.
• Spearhead company wide security culture and architecture to keep our platform secure.
• Own delivery, scalability, and reliability of our backend infrastructure.
• Advise and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to ensure we are building safe, secure, and reliable products.

REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to design and implement highly available and reliable systems.
• Proven experience with Linux, Docker, and cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Extensive experience setting up and maintaining database infrastructure, including Postgres, Terraform, NoSQL, MongoDB, and DocumentDB.
• Ability to be on-call during evenings and weekends when required.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.

DESIRABLE

• Experience with Game Development.
• Proficiency with C++.Proficiency with Typescript/Node.js.
• Experience with DevOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Redis, Jenkins. etc.
• Experience with game server hosting.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Fully remote work, with a yearly company offsite.
• Experience working with gaming veterans of game titles with a gross aggregate revenue well over $10B USD.
• Flexible PTO.
• Experience creating a new IP with franchise potential.