Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Escape Velocity as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and become a game maker, enhancing interactive entertainment experiences. You will analyze, implement, and improve complex systems, own game delivery and reliability, and partner with game teams. Responsibilities include project ownership, resolving operational concerns, optimizing reliability and cost, and participating in on-call rotations. This fully remote position offers excellent benefits and prioritizes work-life balance. Escape Velocity values honesty, autonomy, and constant improvement, fostering a culture of play.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, Devops, or Platform engineering role
• 5+ years of experience with observability, application monitoring and alerting, telemetry collection and data visualization using common tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
• Experience with GitOps workflows and Helix Core / Perforce versioning system
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD systems - Buildkite, Github or Gitlab runners
• Expertise in IaC design using combination of Ansible, Terraform and Cloudformation
• Experience with backend game engines such as Pragma, GameLift, Agones or others
• Experience with capacity planning and FinOps
• Proficient in one or more high-level languages (Ie: Python, Kotlin, JavaScript, C++)
• Strong Linux Skills
• Understanding of public cloud services, their use cases, automation, best practices and cost optimization
• Ability to analyze desired project outcomes and derive requirements that will take an idea from concept to completion

Responsibilities

• Analyze, implement, and improve complex systems responsible for delivering our game to millions of fans
• Own the delivery, scalability, and reliability of the cloud hosted game title
• Partner with game team to advise on and implement best practices as we turn ideas into great player experiences
• Take ownership of projects, seeing them through to completion in a timely manner while maintaining exacting standards for the quality of execution
• Engage with product teams to diagnose and resolve operational concerns
• Form and maintain relationships with internal and external partners to best support our peers and customers
• Consistently aim to optimize reliability, availability, observability, and cost
• Participate in on-call rotation that assists with business-critical incidents impacting our partners

Benefits

• Fully remote and support team members nearly anywhere in the world
• Excellent benefits