Senior Server Engineer for Live Game Systems

4 weeks ago


Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland Supercell Full time
Senior Server Engineer Opportunity at Supercell

We are seeking an experienced Senior Server Engineer to join our game teams in Helsinki. As a Server Engineer at Supercell, you will be embedded in a game team, working closely with other game developers and focusing on ensuring that our hundreds of millions of monthly players receive the best, most uninterrupted experience possible.

The team we are focused on adding a server engineer first is Clash of Clans, but there are openings also in other game teams. Communication between server engineers in different game teams is vital to our success. Our server engineers frequently share learnings, both successes and failures, across game teams to make each team better.

We are looking for a humble, pragmatic, and willing individual who can admit and explain their mistakes. This way, the next time something goes wrong, we'll all be better prepared.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable and available backends for live games
  • Contribute to best practices on reliability and availability
  • Troubleshoot and tune high-volume sharded database systems
  • Periodically offer round-the-clock, first-line support to the production environments, as part of a rotating on-call duty
  • Game teams are typically small, and server engineers will also have the chance to contribute to game design discussions
Requirements:
  • Excellent Java programming skills, including experience with server-side Java, concurrency handling, and distributed systems
  • Good experience with Linux shell and scripting languages
  • Database design and implementation skills, and good SQL knowledge
  • Experience with cloud computing (e.g. AWS) and Terraform
  • Being passionate and committed to tasks, and in general an autonomous person with high levels of initiative and energy
  • An open and respectful attitude towards others and their work
Nice-to-Haves:
  • Knowledge of network protocols and non-blocking IO
  • Previous working experience on high-throughput live systems is a big plus. If absent, then at least a solid appreciation of the challenges involved is expected
  • Prior experience in game development is a plus but not required as long as you are passionate about games
  • Experience in server development without application servers


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