Systems Engineer

Ready for your next adventure?

We are Socialpoint, a world-renowned mobile games studio based in sunny Barcelona. Our games are positioned in the top rankings of both iOS and Android, and they are played and loved by millions of fans all over the world. We are proud members of the Take-Two Interactive and Zynga family, and we are on a mission to offer a great gaming experience and bring fun to everyone!

 

As a Systems Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer, your challenge at Social Point will be to design, implement and operate highly available and scalable platforms on AWS to enable our other teams to create fun for our +6M Daily Active Users (+200K concurrent users).

You’ll be part of a team who believes in infrastructure automation, who loves to measure/log every detail and provides its services on top of new open-source technologies for the business advantage.

 

What will you do at Socialpoint?

If you feel comfortable using and learning from new technologies, we count on you to operate our platform:

• Operate the Infrastructure as Code.
• Configure the service by using configuration managers and container-orchestration.
• Deploy to production by using CI/CD Pipelines.
• Measure/log every detail and improve performance.
• Design and implement usage and security policies, backup strategies while bearing in mind cost efficiency.
• Diagnose problems, find bottlenecks, identify possible solutions and implement those fixes!
• Cross-department collaboration to meet business needs.
• Ability to develop infrastructure automation tools (preferable in Go, but we are open to other languages).

 

What are we looking for?

• 3-5 years of experience as a Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• +3 years of experience managing infrastructure in any Cloud Provider: (AWS preferably).
• Experience managing automation pipelines (GH Actions preferably).
• Experience operating and maintaining container-orchestrators and deploying services in container technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Private Container Registries.
• Experience monitoring and logging systems and services: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK.
• Advanced networking and Internet protocols knowledge.
• Comfortable working in Operating Systems at low level.
• Developing skills. Preferably Python or Go.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Facility to learn new technologies.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Analytical vision, data oriented.

 

Pillars:

• Automation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Configuration Managers
• Container Orchestration
• GIT & Chatops
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
• Measure everything
• Metrics
• Logs
• Traces
• Resilience
• High Availability / Scalability
• Backups
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Disaster Recovery Plan
• Governance
• Usage and Security Policies
• Performance
• Costs Efficiency
• Other teams consultant and advisor
• Tool development
• Script recurrent task
• Develop automation tools

 

What's in it for you as a Socialpointer?

We have a hybrid working from home/office system. So, what does this mean? All we ask is that you live within commuting distance of our office so you are able to come into the office  once a week or when you have important meetings/events.

• Relocation support to help you move to Barcelona (if you’re not already here). 
• An impressive 25 days annual leave, plus a week in December (not including public holidays).
• Monthly meal allowance at the office. Breakfast, Lunch and snacks included.
• Private medical insurance for you and your family, to keep your health bar full.
• Choose from the latest IOS or Android device upon joining (phone or tablet).
• Free language lessons (English, Catalan & Spanish ).
• Spotify Premium to add that special soundtrack that every adventure deserves.   
• Legendary social events & parties to let off some steam. 
• Players develop…Oops, sorry! People development is key for us: an amazing budget just for you to spend skilling up your abilities & knowledge to achieve real growth opportunities!

Coming to work in the office? Don’t worry - we have you covered. Check out some of our onsite benefits:

• State of the art gym facilities so you can level up your build stats. 
• Book an appointment with our onsite physiotherapist for your aches and pains.
• A massive gaming room equipped with all consoles and games you could ask for.
• Drop by our onsite hairdressers for a trim (and forget your wallet; it's a Guild perk).
• Amazing catering for Breakfast and Lunch with our specialty coffee
• Wellness room

Intrigued? We’d love to hear from you. Please click “apply” to level up and submit your application in English.

Socialpoint is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. You’re welcome on the team no matter where you’re from, who you like, what you look like, or if you prefer Xbox over Playstation. It’s a trick question – mobile wins every time! We hire based on your qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities. Our games are for everyone, and so is our workplace.