Golang / Go Job: Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer at IMPROBABLE

🇬🇧 United Kingdom › London   (Posted Jan 17 2018)

About the company
Improbable is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help solve previously impossible problems and enable the creation of new realities. In gaming and entertainment, Improbable unlocks truly next-generation gameplay through virtual worlds of unprecedented scale, persistence and richness. In other industries, we hope to help answer critical questions through simulations that could lead to a better functioning world.

Our platform, SpatialOS, lets developers transcend the limits of regular computation, allowing swarms of servers running in the cloud to cooperate in order to simulate worlds far larger and more complex than any single server could.

We are a British technology company proudly building a diverse workforce, driven by a shared desire to improve and achieve extraordinary things. We’re crafting technology for the future and fostering a problem-solving culture that embraces innovation through iteration and experimentation.

Job position
Permanent / Freelance - Remote work is NOT possible
Relocation compensation available

Job description
Our Purpose

Improbable is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help solve previously impossible problems and enable the creation of new realities. In gaming and entertainment, Improbable unlocks truly next-generation gameplay through virtual worlds of unprecedented scale, persistence and richness. In other industries, we hope to help answer critical questions through simulations that could lead to a better functioning world.

Our platform, SpatialOS, lets developers transcend the limits of regular computation, allowing swarms of servers running in the cloud to cooperate in order to simulate worlds far larger and more complex than any single server could.

We are a British technology company proudly building a diverse workforce, driven by a shared desire to improve and achieve extraordinary things. We’re crafting technology for the future and fostering a problem-solving culture that embraces innovation through iteration and experimentation.

Your Mission

You will be responsible for designing, building and leading the software and systems which underpin our large-scale, real-time, distributed simulations for Enterprise customers. Overall this team is responsible for providing a production environment where customer simulations can run reliably and at scale.

Amongst other duties you will be;
- Leading the development of flexible services & tooling so that SpatialOS can rapidly scale across multiple cloud providers
- Creating a set of services specific to our customers allowing SpatialOS to run in highly secure, air-gapped private clouds across the world
- Leveraging cutting-edge products including Kubernetes, Prometheus, the CoreOS stack, Docker and more.
- Working collaboratively with Product managers to deliver key security, scalability and reliability features
- Growing a motivated, high-performing team in our London HQ

You will work with smart, motivated and curious people, driven by solving globally significant problems across the private and public sector; the kind of problems that keep senior leaders awake at night.

You can read about the engineering culture of the division here.

Skills & requirements
Competencies

Comfortable with multiple programming languages (e.g. Go, Java, C++)
Experience in designing, building and running large-scale distributed systems
Good knowledge of internet networking and performance
Passionate about troubleshooting, debugging, and automation
Strong Linux knowledge
Strong knowledge of deploying and running services on IaaS providers (preferably AWS or GCP).
Knowledge of best practices and tooling (e.g. Terraform)
Experience with clustering and containerization technologies e.g. Kubernetes, Docker etc.

The following would be advantageous:
Experience building high-traffic, robust APIs
Active on open source projects (bug reports, bug fixes, own projects)

Equal Opportunity
The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams at Improbable are made up of an incredible range of talented people. Improbable is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

NB/ Full relocation (inc international) is available for all candidates

Apply now!