Cloud Backend Developer
CoolGames, Netherlands

Are you an ambitious backend developer with experience as a Cloud or Infrastructure engineer? Do you consider yourself a team player with strong communication skills? Does the thought of millions of people around the world playing the games you created get you excited? Then get in touch!

We at CoolGames are looking for such a Backend Developer with a deep interest in also managing cloud infrastructure to join our game development team in the heart of Amsterdam. Either fully remote or hybrid depending on your location or relocation plans.

We are a company which believes it’s important to constantly improve and innovate as we strive to be the best. We work in an informal environment with enthusiastic and smart individuals from all over the world to design and create great games.

As a backend developer with DevOps specialization, you will be part of the game development team, providing them with backend services hosted on Amazon infrastructure. You will work with the Head of Development, project leads, and backend developers. Our backend stack consists of two languages: Golang and partially NodeJS and Python. Experience with one or more of these languages is a big plus.

You will collaborate closely with game developers, continuously improving on integrating our backend solutions. This includes setting up new infrastructure (infrastructure as code), maintaining pipelines and deployment of existing games, as well as contributing to the maintenance and development of internal tooling related to AWS deployments and infrastructure. You manage your own schedule with a view to delivering robust infrastructure and developing backend services to meet established deadlines.

The responsibilities include reporting on AWS costs, advising infrastructure optimizations, performing code reviews for releases, incident response, and making sure our infrastructure remains stable, performant and up to date.

Requirements

The right candidate has most of the following qualities.

• At least 2 years of professional experience developing and maintaining backends, ideally for games;
• Has a good knowledge of databases and good design practices;
• A good understanding of sound programming practices;
• Solid knowledge of linux and infrastructure best practices;
• Solid understanding of network communication protocols;
• Experience with Ansible and Docker;
• You have knowledge of and experience in the following development concepts: CI/CD, DevOps, Agile/Scrum;
• You are enthusiastic, eager to learn and have strong communication skills;
• You have a good command of the English language;
• Is aware and enforces security best practices;
• Has a passion for Game Development!

Good to have:

• At least 2 years of IT commercial experience in system administrating or DevOps area;
• Experience with version control tools like Git and automation pipelines;
• Experience with Terraform and AWS is a plus;
• Experience with (some of) our languages/technologies in the backend stack is a plus (including Go, Ansible, Docker, NodeJS, TypeScript, Vault).

Your duties during a working day are:

• Working on monitoring system based on Prometheus, Alertmanager, Cloudwatch;
• Continuously enhance security measures;
• React to incidents and strive to solve the source of the issue;
• Help and guide developers with their requests;
• Build Gitlab pipelines for various repositories;
• Contribute to clear and robust documentation in Confluence;
• Be independent. Do not wait for requests from someone, but take initiative to propose improvements if you see the potential;
• Look after infrastructure costs on AWS platform.

Benefits

CoolGames offers you a challenging job with a broad responsibility and an attractive compensation package:

• A highly dynamic job with a competitive salary;
• An initial employment contract for one year;
• Company pension plan and travel cost compensation;
• Health care insurance compensation;
• Sports allowance;
• Functional hybrid work environment with the possibility for (fully or partial) remote work;
• An attractive office location in the center of Amsterdam;
• High-end PC, Macbook Pro or other laptop;
• An open, informal and international company culture.

* EU candidates only *

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