Site Reliability Engineer

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 games
Evaluate hardware and software, run benchmarks, and perform capacity planning, for existing and future deployments
Do performance analysis, optimization, and workload characteristics to minimize the resource utilization and cost of our backend
Work closely with other teams on incident resolution and proactive strengthening King’s site reliability
Create and maintain our deployment pipelines
Provide subject matter expertise for our technologies and systems to stakeholders
Troubleshooting, incident management, and On Call

Comfortable working in a Linux computing environment
Strong development skills in Python, and some knowledge of Java, Perl, SQL, or similar
Experience automating and orchestrating distributed systems as well as creating internal tools such as backup management or metrics collection

Interest or experience in

Database technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, HDFS/Hadoop, etc
Monitoring systems like OpenTSDB, InfluxDB, Graphite, etc
Log management systems like Graylog, the ELK stack, etc
Orchestration frameworks like Ansible, Salt, etc

Familiarity with Linux performance tools
Good communication skills

Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create 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. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk.

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Want to join our Kingdom? You’ll find all you need to apply, plus more information on our culture, values and benefits, including relocation packages at jobs.king.com. All applications should be made in English.