Principal Software Engineer (Distributed Systems/ Data)

Job Title:

Principal Software Engineer (Distributed Systems/ Data)

Requisition ID:

R022055

Job Description:

 About Us

Demonware is a member of the Activision family of studios. We work alongside engineers and creatives at our AAA partner studios and deliver the online and data services required by our massive franchises. We have launched well over 100 games, and our services connect multiple millions of players each day into epic entertainment experiences.

While Call of Duty continues to push us to build bigger and better systems year on year. We also have a strong history of supporting great franchises such as Tony Hawk, Crash Bandicoot, Destiny, Diablo, Guitar Hero, and Skylanders.

Our success comes from our talented and passionate people. Our work environment is welcoming and collaborative, we deliver on time and at scale.

Your Mission

Demonware's data team is responsible for creating the services and infrastructure that ingest billions of events our games emit each day.  At this scale, the challenges we face empower our engineers to flex their creative engineering muscles.  When we get things right the analysts, studios and developers that interact with our systems can rapidly go from question to insight without ever having to talk to us.

The Demonware data team also works with studios to model and instrument the things that matter. We work with our customers to ship data forward applications, ensure compliance of data produced and oversee the quality throughout.

We are looking for a data engineer to join our talented data engineering team that’s responsible for managing our large-scale data footprint. If the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in data engineering is enticing, we welcome you to apply.

Key Responsibilities

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:   

• Design, develop, and support scalable and efficient data applications, tools and frameworks.

• Collaborate with internal data customers to provide optimized solutions for their data needs.

• Assist in developing solutions around our big data platforms using technologies such as Flink, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark-Streaming, and others. 

• Build efficient data pipelines that allow faster data processing and transformations at scale.

• Apply data engineering expertise in troubleshooting problems around our large-scale distributed big data systems.

• Build APIs for integration with our internal systems and third-party data sources. 

• Collaborate closely with other engineers on the data team who are responsible for managing various aspects of our data footprint including data instrumentation, frameworks, ingestion, streaming, processing, transformation, and visualization. 

About You

• Comfortable with one or more computer programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, etc.)

• Extensive background and strong technical expertise designing, implementing, and running distributed systems at massive scale.

• Production experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud). 

• Advanced knowledge of some of the big data technologies (Flink, Kafka, PubSub, Spark, etc.).

• Production experience with version control tools and solid understanding of containerization, build, and deployment processes​​ (Argo CI/CD, GitHub, Jenkins, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. 

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and provide optimal solutions for complex problems.

• Advanced understanding of software development practices (preferably agile practices). 

• Good communication and ability to work with data stakeholders independently. 

Bonus Points

• Experience in solving complex data engineering problems at a really large scale.

• Extensive knowledge of modern data architectures and approaches (Streaming, LakeHouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, etc.)

What Demonware Offers

Relocation Support, generous paid vacation, RRSP matching program and top-tier medical, dental and life insurance coverage for you and your dependents and perks.