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.
Knowledge & Skills
Strong understanding of service scalability and reliability principles
Strong Go programming skills
Solid understanding of fundamental technologies, e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, Linux systems.
Key Attributes
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
Extra Points
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
You do not need all of this, but if you have some of it, we're excited! You'll work alongside experienced platform engineers solving large-scale infrastructure challenges while helping shape the future of Kubernetes at Demonware.
Your Platform
While Call of Duty continues to push us to build bigger and better systems year on year. We also have a strong history of supporting great franchises such as Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot, Diablo, Guitar Hero, and Skylanders.
Our success comes from our talented and passionate people. Our work environment is welcoming and collaborative, we deliver on time and at scale.
Our World
We're in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our
Additional Information
Job Title:
Software Engineer, Platform - Demonware - Vancouver Requisition ID:
R027471 Job Description:
Your Mission
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.
What you bring to the table
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following 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.
Minimum Requirements
Activision · Vancouver, Canada