2 months ago
Dublin, Ireland +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Operate, monitor, and continuously improve NATS and NATS JetStream messaging infrastructure.
- Design and own metrics, logs, and traces strategies for distributed backend systems.
- Correlate infrastructure and application signals to diagnose distributed-system root causes.
- Define, implement, and maintain SLO frameworks and error budgets for backend services and messaging pipelines.
- Build reliability tooling, runbooks, and operational frameworks as internal products.
- Partner with backend, infrastructure, and product engineers on reliability standards and architecture decisions.
- Lead or contribute to incident response and drive postmortems toward systemic fixes.
- Review infrastructure and backend code to identify instrumentation gaps, operational anti-patterns, inadequate error handling, and operational risks.
Requirements
- Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, production operations, or backend engineering with significant operational focus.
- Production experience with NATS or NATS JetStream, or equivalent distributed messaging systems such as Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis.
- Experience with leader election, RAFT consensus, and log replication.
- Ability to navigate C#, Go, Python, or similar application codebases and identify code-level operational issues.
- Strong experience designing and implementing observability strategies for distributed systems.
- Experience debugging complex distributed systems across infrastructure and application layers.
- Solid understanding of AWS and containerized workloads such as ECS and Kubernetes/EKS.
- Ability to communicate operational risks across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advocacy for managing infrastructure, SLOs, monitors, and dashboards through Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with NATS JetStream stream configuration, consumer groups, retention policies, and delivery guarantees is preferred.
- Experience with Datadog or equivalent observability tooling is preferred.
- Exposure to database query performance, connection pooling, replication lag, and data modeling is preferred.
- Experience mentoring engineers or driving reliability culture across teams is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote or hybrid work is available in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, or the UK.
- Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance are available from any location.
- Opportunity to work on an ambitious unannounced multiplayer strategy/MMO game.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Scopely
Scopely develops, publishes, and live-operates free-to-play games across mobile, PC, and console, including MONOPOLY GO!, Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command, MARVEL Strike Force, WWE Champions, and Yahtzee With Buddies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Culver City, California, it uses its Playgami technology platform and collaborates with studios worldwide. In 2023, Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group and continues to operate as an independent subsidiary.