Senior Online Services Engineer

Guerrilla, the Amsterdam-based developer of Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, is looking for an Online Services Engineer to support our Online Tech team with upcoming projects.

Our Online Tech team

Our Online Tech team builds reliable, maintainable and performant online systems. We work with various other disciplines to create tools needed to build online game features. We deliver the networking and replication layers for both game client and server, integration with online platform services (e.g. PSN), authentication, matchmaking, inventory, store, server allocations, etc. The team works in close collaboration with our Online Infrastructure team, which designs and maintains the build and deployment environments for our services, servers and tools.

Our Technology

For our services, we use industry-standard web technologies: Java/Kotlin, Spring, OpenAPI. The services are designed around microservice architecture and we share as little state as possible between services. To host our services we use Kubernetes backed by Amazon EKS and we use other AWS services to support our services like S3, DynamoDB and RDS.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Online Services Engineer we will look to you to:

• Help build a highly scalable and highly available online services environment;
• Work on player systems focused on persistence, safety, retention, and engagement;
• Cooperate with multiple internal stakeholders and disciplines to achieve the game’s vision;
• Develop, test and maintain our zero downtime deployment system;
• Develop and improve instrumentation for monitoring and logging the health and availability of services.
• Work closely with the engineers in the Online Infrastructure team to ensure robustness, scalability and performance of our services;
• Keep up to date with the Java world and introduce new technologies when they are relevant for Guerrilla.

Who You Are

We'd love to hear from you if:

• You have extensive Java server development experience (game industry experience is a plus);
• You are comfortable working on a large codebase;
• You have a firm grasp on software design and architecture, and enjoy writing code that is both maintainable and performant;
• You have a deep understanding of web-related technologies (e.g. HTTP, REST, Message Queuing);
• You have experience with version control systems such as Git and Perforce;
• You have experience with cloud native approach, including CI/CD deployments.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills;
• You have a helpful, solution-minded approach;
• Have an interest in online gaming.

If you are up for the challenge, be sure to submit your CV, motivation letter, and a Java code sample that shows your best and most recent work. We would love to see structured programming as code examples and a demo presenting relevant work to the position.

Please note: This position is based in our studio in the heart of Amsterdam. Guerrilla offers relocation and immigration support.