Senior Software Engineer, Database - Demonware

Senior Software Engineer, Database - Demonware

Activision

Dublin, Ireland

Are you passionate about crafting reliable and scalable online services and features, that are used by millions of players all around the world? Do you love engineering, online/multiplayer technology, games, and working with other senior technical staff?

Demonware is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Database team, and we’d love to hear from you!

This role is based in our Dublin, Ireland office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

Your Mission

You would be joining our Database team, who are responsible for our database platform. Demonware has thousands of database nodes, and we deal with the difficult challenge of making database management easier for our colleagues across the studio.

We provide our technology to other internal teams in a self-service model to configure and deploy for their services & game titles. You would be helping to evolve this model as we make more use of cloud technologies and help minimize our customers' operational overhead. You would be working with technologies such as Redis, Kubernetes, and Vitess (MySQL).

What you bring to the table

• Develop, maintain and evolve the database tooling platform, improve our self-serve model, and evolve it for cloud technologies
• Liaise with other teams who run database technology, ensuring their requirements are met in a timely appropriate manner
• Drive the direction of our software and tooling architecture, considering our dedication to maximum reliability for players and internal customers alike
• Ensure all components are highly scalable and maintainable
• Own the features, components and tooling being built
• Chip in to and review designs and code from other team members
• Support our customer-facing teams as they roll-out new features to game-studio partners, and provide support and consultancy to our colleagues around the world
• Partner with other engineers to solve problems with our technology, and provide an excellent customer experience
• Provide mentorship on standard methodologies for database tooling development and integration

Player Profile

Minimum requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including in a critical production service environment
• Love to code, with excellent development skills and knowledge of multiple languages, specifically with Python
• Previous experience designing and building tooling for use by other engineers; able to understand and explain what makes a well-designed API/tool
• Experience in database design, including with MySQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience working with container orchestration e.g. Kubernetes
• Demonstrated excellence in communicating within and across teams
• Solid understanding of networking protocols: TCP, HTTP, TLS, etc.
• Ability to analyze requirements and make corresponding design decisions
• Demonstrable capacity for an investigative approach and keen to learn new technologies
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, and able to complete sophisticated tasks with minimal direction
• A positive, supportive, and collaborative approach to working with team members

Extra Points:

• Software engineering experience with Golang
• Experience with continuous integration and agile methodologies
• Experience with building backend services, including with RESTful APIs, and Linux and other open-source technologies
• Experience with large scale services (up to millions of concurrent users)