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Bethesda Game Studios · 7 hours ago

Senior Backend Programmer

Rockville, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$105K/yr - $225K/yr

10+ years exp

Bethesda Game Studios is an award-winning development team behind major game franchises like Starfield and The Elder Scrolls. They are seeking a Senior Backend Programmer to design, implement, and maintain backend services in the cloud, and build game side APIs, ensuring optimal performance and security.

GamingSoftwareVideoVideo Games

Responsibilities

Help architect, build, and maintain cloud-based microservice systems primarily in Golang and C++ to support Bethesda Game Studios games. This will include both services for the games and services to support development of the games

Code review and mentor more junior team members

Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives

Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to processes and tools

Lead and participate in team or customer meetings as necessary

Qualification

GolangC++MicroservicesCloud ArchitectureDatabase SolutionsPythonC#LinuxDevOpsContainerizationSoft Skills

Required

You have previous experience building and architecting microservice based distributed applications for deployment to a cloud environment

You have a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

You have 10+ years experience in object-oriented and asynchronous programming in multiple languages (you're a polyglot), preferably C++, Golang, Python, and C# (Java acceptable substitute for Golang or Python if you have C++)

You have 5+ years building microservices in the cloud using HTTP protocols, message brokers, caching, and databases systems to support a microservice based architecture

You have 5+ years architecting scalable database solutions to work with microservice architecture (Relational and/or NoSQL)

You have significant experience working in a Linux based environment including basic system administration and performance management

You have familiarity with front end frameworks like React or similar

You have familiarity with Cloud Architecture in AWS and Azure, Containerization systems, and DevOps principles

Previous on call experience where you can identify root causes of issues and fix most issues independently

Solid Computer Science fundamentals including design patterns, algorithms and algorithmic complexity, memory management, state/object management, compilation, execution, and asynchronous processing and how all these apply to the language you are working with

Solid understanding of object-oriented principles including application of composition vs inheritance as well as SOLID principles as it applies to the language you are working with

Expertise in async programming principles and networked applications

Strong C++ fundamentals

Solid Golang or Java

Proficiency with Python or C#

Proficiency in how to build multi-layered microservice architecture at enterprise scale

Proficiency in message broker and caching system and how to use them to further scale over a microservice architecture

Knowledge of where horizontal scale in cloud architecture fails

Knowledge of cost implications of different architectures

Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Familiarity with services and technologies available in Azure and AWS you can build upon

Ability to develop towards Azure using a multi-cloud framework while managing capacity issues and fallback to AWS

Ability to develop towards hybrid data center and cloud platforms

Expertise in strengths and weakness of solutions offered by each cloud provider

Database knowledge of basics for different database types (MySQL and variants and Mongo and variants) to the degree you can optimize and tune from the developer perspective

Knowledge of database schema and scaling methodologies to further optimization and scale

Proficiency in database query languages

Ability to diagnose performance and connectivity Linux and Windows related issues

Understanding of application side security best practices for multilayered micro-services environment

Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City

Expertise in branch management

Experience with open-source frameworks, operating systems, and containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, AKS, and Kubernetes

Expertise in application and API testing methodologies and best practices

Expertise in automated testing