Senior Online Services Engineer

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

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.

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.

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.
• Participate in, and help maintain, a healthy and sustainable on-call rotation.

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, hit the “apply now” button to submit your application to us. 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.

At Guerrilla, we believe that our team’s varied backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives help us create games that resonate with a diverse audience.

As an equal opportunities employer, we strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity.

We encourage everyone to respond as we consider all candidates on the basis of their merit, unique strengths, and perspectives they will bring to the role.