About this role
Comfortable working in a Linux computing environment Strong development skills in Python, and some knowledge of Java, Perl, SQL, or similar Experience automating and orchestrating distributed systems as well as creating internal tools such as backup management or metrics collection Interest or experience in Database technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, HDFS/Hadoop, etc Monitoring systems like OpenTSDB, InfluxDB, Graphite, etc Log management systems like Graylog, the ELK stack, etc Orchestration frameworks like Ansible, Salt, etc Familiarity with Linux performance tools Good communication skills You will among other things: Develop and maintain utilities and libraries supporting our distributed infrastructure, working with technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, OpenTSDB, and so on. Build automation and improve the resilience of the systems serving our games Evaluate hardware and software, run benchmarks, and perform capacity planning, for existing and future deployments Do performance analysis, optimization, and workload characteristics to minimize the resource utilization and cost of our backend Work closely with other teams on incident resolution and proactive strengthening King’s site reliability Create and maintain our deployment pipelines Provide subject matter expertise for our technologies and systems to stakeholders Troubleshooting, incident management, and On Call Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk. Apply now! Want to join our Kingdom? You’ll find all you need to apply, plus more information on our culture, values and benefits, including relocation packages at jobs.king.com . All applications should be made in English.