Backend Services Engineer (Mid-Level or Senior) Zenimax Media
Austin, TX

Job Description

Bethesda Game Studios is seeking a qualified Backend Services Engineers (Mid-Level or Senior) to help create and maintain backend services. The successful candidate will have knowledge of and experience in the design, implementation and continuing support of horizontally scalable online services in an asynchronous environment. The backend consists of microservices written in Go and integration libraries written in C++.

Responsibilities

* Architect and implement new backend services to meet design goals
* Enhance and maintain existing backend services
* Contribute to internal tools for assisting development and for maintaining services
* Identify and resolve scaling and security issues
* Work closely with other members of the team
* Integrate services into game client and servers

Requirements:

* 3+ years of experience writing highly scalable web services or distributed systems (Go, Python, Node.js, Erlang or similar language)
* Experience with design and implementation of REST-style API
* Experience with working in Linux and Windows environments
* Strong coding, algorithm design, debugging skills
* Demonstrate a desire to continually learn and hone skills
* Must be able to self-manage while taking responsibility of tasks and time
* BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Desired Skills:

* 1+ year(s) of production Golang experience
* Experience reading, writing, and reviewing modern C++ code
* Experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud solutions
* Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases and data modeling (MongoDB, Redis, MySQL)
* Experience with Docker
* Experience with Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ)
* Knowledge of browser-based technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, AJAX
* Experience working with source control (git, Perforce)
* Strong familiarity with Bethesda Game Studios games