Responsibilities:

Are you passionate about gaming and skilled in managing distributed online systems? Uncapped Games is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer like you! Join us in our quest to revolutionize the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre with our groundbreaking new game. Here, your expertise isn't just valued; it's essential. In our team, honesty, respect, and a collaborative spirit aren't just ideals—they're the foundation of everything we do. If you're eager to blend your technical prowess with a genuine love for RTS gaming and thrive in an innovative, team-oriented environment, we invite you to be a part of this thrilling journey. Let's redefine gaming together at Uncapped Games!

Why Join Us?

• Influence Beyond Your Role: Enjoy the liberty to explore different disciplines and impact the team beyond the confines of your role.

• Flexibility and Balance: We offer flexible remote work options tailored to the project's needs, ensuring a balance between professional and personal life.

• Creative and Collaborative Culture: Thrive in our start-up environment that fosters creativity and collaboration.

• Competitive Compensation: We offer an attractive package that includes competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Your Role and Impact:

• Pioneering Infrastructure Development: Play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the infrastructure of a new, fast-paced online RTS game.

• Key Service Solutions: Implement essential services such as logging, secrets management, and deployments, enhancing the game's operational effectiveness.

• Collaborative Execution: Work closely with game development teams to efficiently execute release and live operations plans.

• Automation Champion: Lead the automation of various processes, from deployments to testing, and manage systems that significantly reduce manual effort.

• Exploration Opportunities: Embrace the chance to delve into other areas of game development that spark your interest.

Requirements:

What We’re Looking For:

• Relevant Experience: 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Operations, preferably in the gaming industry.

• Technical Versatility: Proficiency in one or more programming languages and comfort in building diverse tools.

• Problem-Solving Expertise: Skilled in deep troubleshooting to identify and resolve core issues.

• System Design & Management: Experience with distributed systems, micro-services, and high-availability strategies.

• Cloud Solutions Knowledge: Competence in designing cloud-agnostic solutions across platforms like AWS, GCP, and Tencent Cloud.

• Database Systems Acumen: Familiarity with various database systems, both relational and non-relational (e.g., Redis, MongoDB, MySQL).

• Configuration Management Tools: Experience with tools like Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible.

• CI/CD Tools Proficiency: Knowledge of tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, and Spinnaker.

• Monitoring Systems Insight: Understanding of time-series databases and metric collection systems (e.g., InfluxDB, Prometheus, ElastiCache).

• Live Service Alerts: Experience in implementing and tuning alerts for live service environments.

• Visualization Tools: Familiarity with tools like Grafana, Splunk, DataDog and Kibana.

• OS Knowledge: Proficiency with Linux and Windows.

• Communication Skills: Excellent ability to communicate effectively within a team.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in establishing Service-Level Objectives for live service games.

• Experience shipping and supporting AAA live service games.

• Skills in Golang, C++, or C#.

• Experience with Kubernetes infrastructure.

• Expertise in securing large-scale systems.

• Knowledge of networking and diagnostic tools.

• Experience with Unity3D or Unreal engines.

• Enthusiasm for emerging tech trends.

Application Process:

If you are ready to take on this exciting role, we invite you to apply and become a part of our journey in redefining the RTS genre. Share your experiences, passions, and how you can contribute to our dynamic team. We look forward to embarking on this thrilling adventure with you!

 

Location State(s)

California

 

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $97,200 to $224,440 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.