Senior Engineer - Game Services

Company: C77 Entertainment
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with experience maintaining the primary services and infrastructure that support major online services for games. Help work with our designers, content creators, and engineers to enable multiplayer features that extend the game beyond the players in the match, and make you feel like you---re a part of something larger. Keeping games live and always updating has never been more important to devs and fans alike, and we need an engineer who will help make that happen. As the Senior Engineer on Game Services at C77, you will drive the development of an original IP, while leading a team to build infrastructure that is yours to own, develop, and improve. Who We Are Looking For You, our ideal candidate, will have had experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining a suite of online services for a live service video game. We are particularly keen to meet candidates who have experience with matchmaking, account management, scalable database design, and who have strong opinions about uptime. You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across a small team. Our ideal candidate knows how to argue for great ideas, and work through difficult issues, while also having empathy and care for their teammates. Responsibilities Help us build our live Online Services using industry-standard scalable distributed technologies. Develop and maintain the systems that let us track player behavior, game metrics, and other critical data. Collaborate with a cross-functional team to integrate new gameplay experiences with live backend servers. Rapidly investigate and resolve emergent issues in test, development, and live environments. Required Qualifications 5 years of experience in a professional game development environment. Experience with Playfab, EoS, AWS Gamelift integrations or similar. Azure, AWS, Alicloud, OpenStack or other public/private cloud experience. Experience with relational or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Mongo, or similar. Familiarity with modern web components such as REST, Redis, Websockets, RabbitMQ etc. Nice To Have Skills Direct experience working with Playfab. Working knowledge of containers such as Kubernetes or Docker. Comfortable writing clear and accurate technical documentation. Experience in an agile development environment. About C77 C77 is led by Mattias Kyl--n and Kenny Magnusson; two Swedes with a long history in the industry. Together they've worked on several award-winning AAA titles, including leadership roles on franchise development teams such as Halo, Battlefield, and Mercenaries. Located in Seattle, our team consists of passionate developers with deep experience in AAA game development and VFX. Since C77 began in 2019, we---ve grown our studio by adding more diverse and creative developers as we continue work on our first game.

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