Software Engineer, Platform - Demonware - Vancouver

Demonware • 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, and a variety of other benefit programs like supplemental life & critical illness, legal service, and others
• Relocation assistance

What This Job Offers

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