Firaxis Games is looking for an Online Services Engineer to help enrich our games with services such as matchmaking, player stats, leaderboards, analytics, entitlement platforms, anti-cheat and security, customer service tools, and more.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with internal and external online services platform teams, advocating for the game team.
- Become a domain expert for our internal and external online service platforms.
- Design and implement modifications, reorganizations, extensions, and optimizations to existing code base.
- Work closely with the game team to build and maintain online service functionality within game clients.
- Actively maintain skill-set and knowledge base by keeping track of the latest innovations from the industry.
Requirements
- Strong Python skills. Including asyncio, tornado framework, aws library, writing general tools.
- Strong containerization experience. Kubernetes, docker, containerd
- Strong AWS knowledge. EC2, EKS.
- Strong C++ programming and debugging skills.
- Experience with MySQL and managing MySQL databases.
- Experience developing distributed systems at a large scale.
- Linux OS experience.
- Experience with online service architectures, design patterns, and associated challenges.
- Ability to come up with novel, inventive, solutions to very hard problems in the gaming and online services spaces
- Ability to adhere to the prevalent coding style and practices.
- Self-motivated and passionate about games.
- Able and motivated to work with other team members.
- 3+ years industry experience.
- Experience with Unreal Engine 4 a plus.
- Experience with current console systems a plus.
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