Site Reliability Engineer

About Infrastructure Engineering:Our mission is to build effective, stable and reliable, large scale infrastructure, tools, and services for our games and product teams to allow them to focus on creating great games. We strive to empower developer teams to be autonomous and flexible and continuously work to create a self service model for our tech by being in close collaboration with development teams in the full product life cycle.We engineer and provide the shared infrastructure serving all of our games, as well as the developer environments and supporting tech like observability, log management, and event transport. This includes everything from working in the datacenters and writing orchestration and automation for our production stack to troubleshooting distributed systems and resolving production incidents.We are currently working on multiple projects redefining our infrastructure. Among other things we have major efforts to modernize our compute provisioning platform, automate our production networking, as well as evolving all supporting software and orchestration. The Application team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the production applications’ infrastructure. These applications serve billions of data objects representing game states, messaging, and much more that constantly serve hundreds of thousands of requests per second with low millisecond response times.Being part of the team, you will write software to support and automate our infrastructure as well as manage and plan our environment, working in close collaboration with the rest of the Infrastructure Engineering organization and backend-developer teams.You will among other things:Develop and maintain utilities and libraries supporting our distributed infrastructure, working with technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenTSDB, and so on.Build automation and improve the resilience of the systems serving our gamesEvaluate hardware and software, run benchmarks, and perform capacity planning, for existing and future deploymentsDo performance analysis, optimization, and workload characteristics to minimize the resource utilization and cost of our backendWork closely with other teams on incident resolution and proactive strengthening King’s site reliabilityCreate and maintain our deployment pipelinesProvide domain expertise for our technologies and systems to stakeholdersTroubleshooting, incident management, and On CallSkills to create thrillsComfortable working in a Linux computing environmentStrong development skills in Python, and some knowledge of Java, Perl, SQL, or similarExperience automating and orchestrating distributed systems as well as creating internal tools such as backup management or metrics collectionDatabase technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, HDFS/Hadoop, etcMonitoring systems like OpenTSDB, InfluxDB, Graphite, etcLog management systems like Graylog, the ELK stack, etcOrchestration frameworks like Ansible, Salt, etcFamiliarity with Linux performance toolsGood communication skillsA great saga needs diverse heroesMaking games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We craft games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all kinds of people from all types of backgrounds to bring them to life. We believe we simply can’t expect diversity in our players and new ideas in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sort of heroes, wouldn’t you agree? That’s why we provide equal opportunities and hire all sorts of talent. We’re Seriously PlayfulOfficially, we are a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that takes pride in having fun. Every single day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to craft the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company, Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. Do you think this is something you can help us achieve? Then we’d love to talk with you. Apply now!Want to join our Kingdom?You can find more information on our culture, values and benefits, including relocation packages at jobs.king.com. And we will be happy to tell you more about the role and about us.You should submit your application in English.