About the job
Join the vibrant community of players in Sky, where we are dedicated to enhancing player interactions and fostering lasting friendships. We are on the lookout for an accomplished Senior Backend Engineer to develop robust backend systems that support thousands to millions of concurrent users while achieving zero downtime.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead engineering initiatives in your specialized areas. Share your expertise with team members, establish best practices, and ensure code quality through thorough reviews. Design and implement scalable backend systems that can accommodate high volumes of players.
Leverage modern container and cluster management technologies to enhance the elasticity and resilience of our backend infrastructure.
Enhance and sustain an agile, reliable development environment for the backend stack, enabling team members with diverse skillsets to conduct social experiments seamlessly and allowing new hires to onboard efficiently.
Proactively monitor backend performance and swiftly address any failures or anomalies to ensure a seamless online experience for players globally; continuously improve dev-ops tools to enhance automation and reduce errors.
Qualifications:
A strong passion for video games; think and act from the players' perspective.
Comfortable with taking calculated risks and achieving unprecedented engineering milestones.
Enjoy collaborating within dynamic, rapidly growing teams.
Required Skills:
A minimum of 5 years of experience in backend development and deployment in production environments.
In-depth knowledge of scalable and highly available backend systems; familiarity with open-source distributed system technologies, including scalable databases, caching strategies, distributed transactions, and dev-ops tools.
Ability to analyze logs from multiple sources, identify correlations across system layers, and diagnose failures, suspicious activities, and performance bottlenecks effectively.
Proficient in the Linux ecosystem; fluent in Linux or macOS bash CLI tools and Python scripting.
Exceptional problem-solving capabilities and an analytical mindset.
