Software Architect - Telemetry

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Haven Studios is a game development studio headquartered in Montreal. In May 2021, we embarked on a journey to start Haven as a small team with big ambitions. Our goal was to build a studio of exceptional people where together we could make the kind of games we’ve always wanted to create – games we’ve longed to play. At Haven, we believe that kindness, adaptability and fearless optimism make space for creative excellence. We are a hybrid studio that supports flexibility, focus and collaboration for our teams.

Haven joined the PlayStation Studios family as the first Sony game development team in Canada in 2022.

We have made amazing progress in a short time thanks to our talented, passionate team and their excellent contributions. Our first game, Fairgames, is in development for PlayStation and PC. Fairgames is a competitive multiplayer action heist with a vision to build a systemic and evolving world focused on freedom, thrill and playfulness that will entertain and engage players for years to come.

Position - Software Architect - Telemetry

We are looking for an experienced software architect passionate about Telemetry, Analytics and Data Engineering to join us at Haven Entertainment Studios. You will be responsible for developing the technical vision and designing our online infrastructure, the different backend services and the visualization tools of our analytics pipeline. This pipeline collects data from all instances of our game engine as well as our production environment. More precisely, you will be working closely with our game development team to offer logs and metrics for diverse usage, including software performance analysis, log analysis, and production KPIs. Finally, you will also be responsible for delivering and maintaining both development and live environments.

Reporting

The Software Architect will report to the Technical Director.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Elaborate long-term technical vision for our telemetry platform.
• Develop, maintain and optimize data ingestion and analysis services as well as the infrastructure that supports it.
• Develop, maintain and optimize front-end analytics applications.
• Develop, maintain and optimize in-engine analytics integration.
• Guide our game development team in the usage and implementation of the instrumentation library.
• Collaborate with members of the Telemetry team as well as the game development teams to provide training and support (e.g. code review).
• Plan work effectively, and provide realistic updates on progress to your team and managers.
• Maintain knowledge and analyze the potential of technological advances and trends.

Experience and skills required

• 5 years minimum of experience as a programming leadership position.
• Extensive knowledge of Rust and/or C++.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar.
• Experience optimizing database schemas and queries.
• Experience architecturing distributed systems based on cloud native technologies.
• Experience in DevOps using infrastructure as code.
• Thirst to learn.

Bonus experience and skills

• Experience with software performance profilers (Unreal Insight, Pix Renderman, VTune, etc).
• Experience working in AWS (ECS, ECR, S3, MySQL Aurora, Docker).
• Datafusion and Parquet file format.
• Experience using:
• OpenAPI / REST API
• Typescript / Svelte
• OpenTelemetry

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