Expert Engineer, Accounts and Authentication

2 Months ago • 7-10 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Expert Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building highly scalable services using open-source technologies to facilitate player-to-player interactions. Your role involves enhancing and expanding Demonware's services for account management, identity management, and privacy tools. You will provide technical guidance to the team and across Demonware, design and implement features, manage services, and assist game studios with integrating features into existing and future games. This is a DevOps role requiring the maintenance and support of live services. You will also contribute to research and development, participate in technical decision-making, and collaborate with project managers and technical leads to define team objectives. The position requires excellent programming skills and the ability to mentor junior team members, with experience in Linux/Unix.
Must have:
  • Design and build scalable services using open-source technologies.
  • Improve and extend Demonware services for accounts and identity management.
  • Guide technical direction and standards within Demonware.
  • Design and implement features and manage services.
  • Excellent programming skills, preferably Python and/or C++.
  • Experience with Linux/Unix.
Good to have:
  • Experience with handling millions of connections.
  • Experience with continuous integration and agile methodologies.
  • Interest in travel for on-site integration.
Perks:
  • Relocation Support
  • Generous paid vacation
  • Pension
  • Top-tier medical, dental, and life insurance coverage

Job Details

Job Title:

Expert Engineer, Accounts and Authentication - Demonware (Dublin)

Requisition ID:

R025315

Job Description:

Who we are:

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios that make up part of Xbox. We run every part of the players’ online experience, from logging in to matchmaking to climbing the leaderboards, for popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty, Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Crash Bandicoot.

The work we do together every day impacts almost half a billion players around the world. We solve big company challenges with a small company feel. We are technology-driven with a culture of openness. This means collaborating to solve interesting challenges, enjoying the freedom to talk to anyone, and always feeling respected. We take the work seriously; ourselves, not so much.  
 

What we do:

We create and operate the accounts and authorization services for Activision games. Our goal is to manage players' identity safely and securely for all players. Our Python Services are built on top of Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Kafka and typically deployed to our own on premises hardware using Ansible, Puppet and Kubernetes. All our services are accessed from C++ clients which are integrated into Activision’s bespoke game engines. Our team is based in Dublin. This role is to provide deep expertise, technical direction and deliver new features in the accounts and account security domain. This is a hands-on role that suits engineers interested in large scale, security and the gaming world.
 

What you’ll do:

  • Design and build highly-scalable services using open source technologies to enable crucial player to player interactions
  • You will work on improving and extending the Demonware services for Accounts and Identity management and Privacy tooling.
  • You will guide our technical direction and standards with engineers on the team and across Demonware
  • You will design and implement features, run services and help our game studios integrate features into current and future games
  • This is a DevOps role that includes maintaining and supporting the live services that you develop.

About you:

  • You will contribute to R&D effort and technical decision making around Demonware’s online services and tech stack, experience of architecture design is required.
  • You will collaborate with the project manager and technical lead  to map out and deliver team objectives and priorities for the year based on company goals and product roadmap
  • You will support the team to own, operate and support the services and features they develop. Excellent programming skill is required, preferably Python and/or C++ but we're open to other similar languages (Java, C#, Go, Rust, etc.)
  • You will provide technical mentorship to more junior team members through software engineering best practices
  • Experience with Linux/Unix

Bonus:

  • Experience with problems of large scale, and handling millions of connections 
  • Experience with continuous integration and agile methodologies
  • Interest in travel to assist on-site integration at game studios and able to accommodate a flexible work schedule that includes being on-call

What Demonware Offers:   

Relocation Support, generous paid vacation, pension and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.

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About The Company

Demonware provides online software and services for gaming. We design, develop, and host customized services such as matchmaking, microtransactions, player profiles, and data analytics for some of the most popular video game franchises, including Call of Duty and Crash Bandicoot.We are a technology-driven company with a commitment to openness. This means collaborating to solve problems, the freedom to talk to anyone, and always feeling respected.Demonware has offices in Dublin, Ireland; Vancouver, Canada; and Shanghai, China, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc.

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