Database Engineer - MySQL/Cassandra

The Database and Performance Engineering team at King is responsible for building, maintaining, and designing the database infrastructure serving and storing billions of rows of data representing game states, messaging, and much more. Our systems constantly serve hundreds of thousands of requests with low millisecond response times.

Being part of the team, you will help to build software to support and automate our infrastructure as well as manage and plan our environment, working in close collaboration operations, network, and backend-developer teams. This role may need you to participate in our on-call rota.

Your role within our Kingdom
?Develop and maintain utilities and libraries supporting our distributed database infrastructure, working with technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenTSDB, and so on.
?Build automation and improve the resilience of the systems serving our games
?Evaluate hardware and software, run benchmarks, and perform capacity planning, for existing and future database deployments
?Do performance analysis, optimization, capacity planning, and workload characteristics to minimize the resource utilization and cost of our backend
?Work closely with Operations, Network, and Platform teams on incident resolution and proactive strengthening King?s site reliability

Skills to create thrills
?Comfortable working in a Linux computing environment
?Programming in Python, Java, Perl, SQL, or similar
?Experience working with relational and/or distributed databases such as MySQL or Cassandra
?Familiarity with Linux performance tools
?Interact with business stakeholders to refine the functional requirements as well as to get feedback on the work done as early as possible in the development process, to ensure the solution is fit for the problem to solve

Our Kingdom

King Digital Entertainment plc (NYSE: KING) is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. We make games for millions of players worldwide, which can be played on our King.com and Royalgames.com websites, Facebook, and mobile platforms such as the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, the Amazon Appstore and the Windows Store.

King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, London, Malmö, Seattle, Singapore and Stockholm, along with offices in Malta, San Francisco, Seoul and Tokyo.

Want to join our Kingdom?

If you are interested, please apply! Applications must be in English.

The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. That?s why we hire all sorts of talent.
Apply here: https://apply.king.com/vacancy/887/description