Software Engineer, Platform - Demonware - Vancouver

Activision Blizzard, Inc. • Vancouver, BC

1d • CA$73,255 - CA$154,790 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us in managing our Kubernetes Platform that supports backend game services for some of the largest multiplayer games in the world. This is a team with a very large responsibility! This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, and the home studio for this role is Vancouver, Canada.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant work experience, preferably in high-volume and/or critical production service environments.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies, and particularly Kubernetes, in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of service scalability and reliability principles
• Strong Go programming skills
• Solid understanding of fundamental technologies, e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, Linux systems.
• A passion for delighting internal customers.
• Enjoy learning about and debugging complex distributed systems.
• An insatiable desire to automate all the things.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Take strong ownership of initiatives from inception through deployment and sustainment

Nice To Haves

• Developing and deploying software integrating with Kubernetes APIs and CRD.
• Developing and deploying large-scale distributed systems in public or private cloud (hundreds to thousands of instances).
• Contributing to and participating in the open source community, in particular CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and related projects.
• Working with bare metal lifecycle management in on- premises datacenter.
• Managing public cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiar with gitops tooling such as ArgoCD and Helm

Responsibilities

• Partner with our internal teams to improve developer experience on Bonzai!, our Kubernetes Platform, and Demonware's overall engineering output.
• Build and evolve Bonzai! with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Contribute to and occasionally lead infrastructure integration projects involving multiple teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues affecting critical backend services at scale.
• Contribute to root cause analysis efforts.
• Help the team implement fixes and apply what we’ve learned to prevent recurring issues.
• Proactively maintain and develop backend systems infrastructure.
• Maintain and validate platform infrastructure through automation, testing, and operational best practices.
• Active participation in design and code reviews.
• Participation in an on-call rotation supporting critical production infrastructure and services.

Benefits

• Extended health plan, including medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, for employees and their dependents, as well as disability insurance
• RRSP with Company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation
• Paid sick time
• Compassion and bereavement leaves
• Parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs
• Fitness programs
• Free and discounted games
• Supplemental life & critical illness
• Legal service
• Relocation assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed