Senior Backend Engineer - China

Sky has an amazing and vibrant community of socially minded players, and we are tirelessly working on solutions to deepen player interaction and create lasting friendships. We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to work on large-scale, highly available backend systems that serve thousands to millions of concurrent players and aim for zero downtime.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the engineering work in your expertise areas. Share knowledge with other team members, set up best engineering practices, and control code quality through reviews. Design and implement large-scale, highly available backend systems that serve thousands to millions of concurrent players and aim for zero downtime.

- Embrace modern container and cluster management technology to make our backend stack more elastic and robust.

- Improve and maintain an agile and reliable development environment for the backend stack, so that people with different skillsets in the company can do social experiments easily, and new hires can ramp up quickly.

- Monitor the backend health and respond to any failures or glitches to deliver a smooth online experience to players worldwide; keep improving dev-ops tools to make the job more automatic and error-proof.

Qualifications:

- Have deep passion and thoughts for video games; be a gamer and think on behalf of players.

- Be comfortable taking risks and accomplish engineering achievements that no one else has done.

- Enjoy working with fast-moving and rapidly-growing small teams.



Required Skills

- 5+ year or more experience in backend development and deployment in a production environment.

- Have a thorough understanding of scalable and highly available backend systems; be familiar with open-source distributed system tech stacks, including but not limited to scalable databases, caching strategy, distributed transactions, and dev-ops tools.

- Be able to extract useful information from different sources of logs, f...