Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Global Online Games

Spliced; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic gaming studio is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate large-scale services and enhance online functionality. The role involves designing and maintaining distributed web services, monitoring systems, and ensuring reliable operations for millions of players. Ideal candidates have experience in cloud optimization, database management, and continuous deployment processes. The studio offers a collaborative environment, rich benefits, and recognition for hard work, fostering an inclusive atmosphere for all applicants.

Benefits

Sign on bonus

Well-being allowance

Generous pension benefits

Healthcare benefits

Qualifications

• Experience operating large scale online software in a production environment.
• Strong knowledge of distributed system architecture.
• Familiarity with cloud network efficiency in major providers.
• Strong general knowledge of database systems.
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment of distributed systems.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting on distributed systems.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language.
• Familiarity with incident response for large scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain distributed web services, database schemas, and application configuration.
• Implement and maintain runtime caching layers.
• Oversee deployment processes and global content distribution infrastructure.
• Design and maintain monitoring and alerting systems.
• Collaborate with development teams on reliability.
• Mitigate outages and regressions to minimize user impact.
• Be part of the on-call team for first line defense.
• Automate operations tasks to improve efficiency.

Skills

Operating large scale online software

Distributed system architecture knowledge

Cloud efficiency and optimization

Database system behavior knowledge

Continuous integration/deployment

Monitoring/alerting systems experience

Programming expertise

Incident response best practices

Tools

C++

Rust

CockroachDB

Postgres

Redis

Memcached

Unreal Engine

Job description

A dynamic gaming studio is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate large-scale services and enhance online functionality. The role involves designing and maintaining distributed web services, monitoring systems, and ensuring reliable operations for millions of players. Ideal candidates have experience in cloud optimization, database management, and continuous deployment processes. The studio offers a collaborative environment, rich benefits, and recognition for hard work, fostering an inclusive atmosphere for all applicants.