Senior Software Engineer - Golang

Senior Software Engineer - Golang

For Sky: Children of the Light, thatgamecompany has developed several backend services capable of handling a massive amount of concurrent users. Providing a reliable and low latency experience for our players is a priority. We build, test, and maintain systems for account and login, user-generated content, and various persistent gameplay systems. We need your help developing and scaling these mission critical systems so that we can continue providing impactful multiplayer experiences to people around the globe. If this sounds interesting to you, get in touch!

On any given day at TGC, you might:

• Create and maintain high volume Golang services to maintain game and player state in a reliable, secure, and scalable manner

• Work with designers to help bring new gameplay systems to life

• Deploy microservices to our live environment

• Monitor and diagnose problems in the live environment, fixing them in a timely manner

• Help guide future backend technology, systems, and architecture design

• Review another engineer’s Pull Request offering actionable feedback 

You should:

• Be a fan of TGC games and be excited about enhancing the player experience

• Have 5+ years experience working on the backend for an MMO or high-volume, low-latency web services

• Be fluent in Golang

• Have deep experience with both relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)

• Be comfortable deploying containerized services to a kubernetes cluster

• Be familiar with both microservice and monolith architectures

• Be an expert git user

• Be familiar with creating unit tests, stress tests, and integration tests

• Be proficient debugging in network environments

It would be great if you also:

• Have experience with multiple cloud providers like AWS or GCP

• Have experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker

• Have experience with Erlang, C++, or functional programming

• Have experience with Perforce for source control 

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. or Canada. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

We look forward to meeting you.

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