Description
Scopely is looking for a highly experienced Principal Game Server Engineer focused on core server technology to join the team developing a new truly unique multiplayer strategy game.
We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
The ideal candidate will have the opportunity to shape the future of our MMO game server architecture, working in a team responsible for designing, developing and maintaining backend services and APIs in Python running on AWS.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design, develop and maintain backend services and APIs in Python running on AWS
* Work with our MMORTS game services, which support millions of daily players
* Plan the future of our server core technologies that will lay the foundation for exciting new gameplay features
* Design and implement new features in our core technologies, working collaboratively with other stakeholder teams to understand requirements and identify the best technical solutions
* Inspect the performance of our server clusters and propose improvements
* Analyze player behaviors and harden our servers to improve player experience and defend against bad actors (botters, cheaters, etc)
* Work closely with the QA team to resolve bugs and deliver high quality code
* Deploy, monitor, and manage applications in a cloud environment such as AWS
Requirements:
* Highly experienced in developing highly available back-end systems and servers for large-scale MMO games, high-traffic web systems or applications
* Experienced with Python and its ecosystem, including libraries, frameworks, familiarity with web frameworks such as Flask, Tornado, FastAPI, or another similar web framework and Python threading, as well as the principles of async programming
* Familiar with the design and implementation of highly scalable, reliable, and secure systems using Redis and its ecosystem, such as Redislabs. Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development
* Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems and Docker containers, as well as Redis, MySQL (or similar database systems)
* Good understanding of how to prevent intrusions, injections, cheating etc.
* Experience in version control, especially multi-track development and familiarity with deployment methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
* Experience with automated testing
* Experience with stateful and stateless game server architectures
Bonus Points:
* Familiarity with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Redis Streams
* Experience working with AWS services like EC2, ECR, RDS, S3, and IAM
* Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and experience with Terraform for managing infrastructure deployment
* Understanding of network infrastructure and cloud networking concepts, such as VPC, Subnet, Security Groups, and Load Balancing
* Experience with traffic analysis via Charles proxy, browser developer tools, Datadog, logs
* Understanding Kibana / Datadog log querying and dashboards