Dauntless - Senior Services Engineer

Phoenix Labs is looking to hire an experienced Senior Services Engineer who will be responsible for developing and maintaining software services for Dauntless and managing our data analytics pipeline.

The ideal candidate must have effective communication skills and be able to work side-by-side with programmers, designers, data analysts, and production staff. They will be passionate about owning a reliable high-traffic web application and game code to support player experience and possess a solid understanding of data engineering to support data analytical needs.

Responsibilities:

• Work with project leads in cross-discipline teams, to design, implement, and support reliable, secure, and scalable backend web services.
• Design, implement, and support integrating third-party online services into client and server applications.
• Maintain and extend our streaming and batch analytics pipeline.
• Extend systems for collating disparate data sources into data warehouses.
• Build systems that leverage data to provide customized player experiences.
• Create and maintain online services such as matchmaking or player inventories.
• Make architectural recommendations for performance, stability, and security.
• Ensure systems are in place to monitor application performance and detect defects in the live product.
• Assist with planning, estimation, and distribution of work.
• Help integrate services into client-facing applications.
• Help production develop schedules and determine milestones.
• Help analysts extract the required information from the game.

Requirements:

• BSc. degree in Computing Science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8+ years experience building online services.
• Experience developing in Python.
• Experience developing web applications and RESTful services.
• Experience building scalable solutions to support data-intensive workloads.
• Able to effectively architect large features and complex systems from end to end.
• Self-motivated and eager to learn.
• Ability to complete tasks promptly.
• Demonstrable knowledge of automated testing.
• Experience with database technologies.
• Passion for multiplayer gaming.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting a live service with frequent refreshes of content and code.
• Experience architecting scalable solutions to support high-traffic and high-bandwidth loads.
• Experience with modern devops: Terraform, Kubernetes.
• Experience developing: Sign-in flow, matchmaking, leaderboards.
• Experience with Java or Typescript is a plus.
• Experience deploying and supporting applications on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS).
• Experience working with petabyte scale datasets.
• Working knowledge of statistics and mathematics.
• Experience with Python’s scientific computing libraries: numpy, scikit, pandas.
• Familiarity with data storage and sharing regulations like GDPR.