About the position
We are looking for a talented Expert Software Engineer to join our Accounts and Authentication team at Demonware! We specialize in creating and operating the accounts and authorization services for Activision's games, especially with the Call of Duty franchise, where our goal is to manage players' identities safely and securely. 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. In this role you will provide deep expertise, technical direction and deliver new features in the accounts and account security domain, and we're looking for someone passionate about the intersection of highly scalable systems, security and gaming.
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly-scalable services using open source technologies to enable crucial player to player interactions
- Work on improving and extending the Demonware services for Accounts, Identity Management and Privacy tooling
- Guide our technical direction and standards with engineers on the team and across Demonware, as well as work with our project managers to map and deliver objectives and priorities based on company goals and our product roadmap
- Contribute to R&D efforts and technical decision making around Demonware’s online services and tech stack
- Design and implement features, run services and support our partner game studios in integrating features into our current and future games
- Own, operate and support the live services that you develop
- Provide technical mentorship to more junior team members
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in developing highly scalable online services for millions of users
- Excellent programming skills, preferably in Python and/or C++, but we're open to other similar languages (Java, C#, Go, Rust, etc.)
- Prior professional experience working on services related to accounts, authentication, and/or identity management
- Experience with authentication and authorization protocols, as well as identity management systems
- Experience defining and delivering technical solutions to technical users.
- Experience working with Linux/Unix
Nice-to-haves
- 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 in various global locations and be able to accommodate a flexible work schedule that includes being on-call
