Job Title:
Software Engineer, Platform - Demonware - Vancouver, BC

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 based in our Vancouver, BC office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

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

Experience

• 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

Experience

• 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.

Knowledge & Skills

• 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.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.

The standard base pay range for this role is $79,870.00 - $157,642.00 CAD. These values reflect the expected annualized base pay range of new hires in British Columbia, Canada. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.