About the role
As a Build Engineer you will be critical in ensuring that our development teams can work efficiently with quick access to feedback and information, collaborating with many parts of the organization. Together with your team, you will also support bringing our in-house titles to hundreds of thousands of gamers in a fun and engaging work environment that is always looking to build and improve.
Responsibilities include the administration of source control and continuous integration servers. Management of services and processes for deployment of internal builds and public game releases. Development of systems that provide timely feedback and analytics to developers and service users as well as the investigation and promotion of new technologies and better testing procedures.
Required Qualifications
Experience of Linux / macOS server administration.
Experience managing continuous integration systems such as Gitlab CI or Jenkins.
Experience managing version control systems such as Git and Subversion.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Service minded approach with a passion for providing and improving critical development services.
Experience in the following will be considered a plus
Experience with Bash scripting or Python.
Experience of working with and maintaining provisioning systems such as Terraform.
Experience of working with configuration management systems such as Ansible or Chef.
Experience building and configuring networks and server installation or maintenance.
The right candidate is passionate about our games and believes that developer efficiency is key to making great experiences. As a key member of the PDS Tech team many developers will rely on your expertise and the services you maintain so you should be both service minded and confident in accepting responsibility. At Paradox, we pride ourselves in providing opportunities to develop and learn new skills so we are looking for candidates who are interested in expanding their talents and working with new technologies.
Practical Information
Scope: Full-time and permanent
Location: Stockholm
Reports To: PDS Tech Lead
If you think that this description matches your background, we highly encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will interview candidates continuously for this position. In your application, please show us why your previous experiences and skills would work for this role and why you are interested in working at Paradox. If you don't match all the requirements, please demonstrate how your passion, attitude and interest in Paradox might compensate for this.
Since we strive for a more even gender distribution we highly encourage women to apply to this role.
Paradox Interactive is a leading, global publisher of deep, replayable games.
We create intellectually challenging games, with long lifespans and a vibrant player communities. Our heart and soul lies in strategy and management games but we occasionally make calculated bets in other genres where we believe there is break-out potential.
Our steadily-growing portfolio includes titles from established series like Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Europa Universalis, Stellaris and Hearts of Iron. Millions of people from all over the world play our games every month, and participate in their continuous development through their purchases and insights they share with us.
Paradox offices are located in Sweden, France, Netherlands, Finland and USA, and each houses creative staff, skilled in a wide variety of areas of expertise. No matter the specialization, each of us contributes to giving our players the best game experiences and value for their money and time.
Everyone at Paradox is expected to know our players, why they love our games and have an awareness of how their work impacts them in the end. We foster highly-engaged communities, where we encourage our fans to share their sentiment, and empower our colleagues to turn that feedback into action that benefits both our business and fans.
If that sounds good, and you share our vision, we’d love you to join us. Check out our career page: https://career.paradoxplaza.com/#jobs