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Form of workSenior Backend Engineer, Data Analytics
Remote - US & Canada
Who is the client?
Their mission - create timeless entertainment that makes a positive change to the human psyche worldwide. If you’ve been wanting to have a positive impact on people's lives and the creative challenges associated with doing something different and unique, then come help us shine brighter together.
What is a quick explanation of the role?
As a Data AnalyticsBackend Engineer, you will serve as a crucial nexus between Analytics and Backend Engineering. You will gain deep experience managing our backend stack and microservices, and work closely with Analytics teams to make sure we’re efficiently tracking and storing all of the data we need to understand our millions of players.
What are the job’s responsibilities?
Have thorough understanding of scalable and highly available backend systems; be familiar with open-source distributed system tech stacks, including but not limited to scalable databases, caching strategy, distributed transactions and DevOps tools.
Be able to extract useful information from different sources of logs, find correlations between multiple layers of systems and diagnose failures, suspicious behaviors and performance bottleneck from bottom to top.
Be comfortable to work with Linux ecosystem; be fluent in Linux or macOS bash CLI tools and Python scripting.
Have deep knowledge of at least one of Go, Erlang or C++.
Have deep knowledge of at least one SQL or NoSQL databases.
Have deep knowledge of at least one distributed message queue systems.
Daily Responibilites:
Design and implement analytics SDKs for modern game engines
Configure new event streams to allow for real-time automated responses to player activity.
Embrace modern technologies like container and cluster management to ensure a more elastic and robust backend stack.
Help to foster communication and collaboration between analytics stakeholders and product engineers.
Improve and maintain an agile and reliable development environment for the backend stack, so that people with varying skill sets in the company can make social experiments easily, and new hires can ramp up quickly.
Monitor the backend health and respond to any failures or issues in order to deliver a smooth online experience to players all over the world; keep improving DevOps tools to make the job more automatic and less error-prone.
We expect you to:
Have deep passion and thoughtfulness for video games; be a gamer and think on behalf of players.
Be comfortable taking risks and innovating.
Enjoy working with fast-moving and rapidly-growing small teams.
What are some brownie points?
Managed and maintained production environment on AWS or GCP.
Deployed services in Kubernetes with Helm and CI/CD tools.
Experience with Data Engineering or Analytics.
Experienced in schema design and performance tweaking of MongoDB and Redis.
