Senior Software Engineer, Database - Demonware - Dublin, IRL
Blizzard Entertainment1 day ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and evolve the database tooling platform and self-service deployment model.
- Design reliable, scalable, and maintainable software and tooling architecture for database services.
- Collaborate with internal teams to understand requirements and support their database technology needs.
- Own features, components, and tooling; contribute to design and code reviews.
- Support customer-facing teams during feature rollouts and provide technical support and consultancy.
- Mentor engineers on database tooling development and integration practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including work in a critical production service environment.
- Strong development skills and knowledge of multiple programming languages, specifically Python.
- Experience designing and building tooling for other engineers and evaluating well-designed APIs and tools.
- Experience with database design, including MySQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes.
- Understanding of networking protocols including TCP, HTTP, and TLS.
- Ability to analyze requirements, make design decisions, investigate problems, learn technologies, and complete complex work with minimal direction.
- Preferred experience with Golang, backend services, RESTful APIs, Linux, open-source technologies, continuous integration, agile methodologies, and large-scale services.
Benefits
- Dublin, Ireland office location with an onsite schedule of four days per week.
- Work arrangements may change at the company’s discretion based on business needs.
- Opportunity to work on online and data services supporting major gaming franchises and millions of players.
- Inclusive, collaborative, and equal-opportunity work environment with reasonable accommodation support.
About Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment develops and publishes video games for PC and consoles, including World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, StarCraft, and Hearthstone, supported by Battle.net services and esports. Founded in 1991 (as Silicon & Synapse) and headquartered in Irvine, California, it operates within Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2023. Its business model spans premium games, expansions, a World of Warcraft subscription, and in-game purchases for live-service titles.