Senior Developer Support Technician - Albany, NY
Rocket Science Group is a co-development game studio specialising in multiplayer, platform services, publishing technology, and live operations for PC, console, and mobile titles. We have teams in Europe and North America and work in partnership with the game industry’s top creators.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Developer Support Technician to join our team as we continue to build out our new product offering. We have recently taken responsibility for the Multiplay game server hosting solution.
You’ll be focused on supporting both new and existing Multiplay customers, ensuring their technical solution is performing flawlessly.
This is a critical role responsible for the day-to-day operations in our Live Operations team. You will join a new team executing our 24/7/365 Monitoring and Incident Management processes and keeping games operating flawlessly for our customers.
This role is based on-site in our Albany, NY office. The role will consist of 5 x 8 hour shifts with 2 days off per week. This will be day and evening shifts with some weekend working to be determined.
What You’ll Do:
Operations: Daily operations including monitoring live services, managing incident response, and ensuring optimal performance across all platforms.
Technical Support: Be responsible for customer requests and tickets, primarily as an escalation point within the team.
Absence and Leave Coverage: You will work with your UK based counterpart to cover absence in our Live Operations team. Adaptability and flexibility is key to ensure we maintain an exceptional customer experience.
Customer Engineering: This role will also include working as part of our CE team providing proactive technical oversight and driving customer success, including managing long term tasks and projects on behalf of customers.
Internal Customer Advocacy: You will work with our engineering team and wider business stakeholders, including business development to ensure we safeguard the technical quality of our platform on behalf of our customers.
Develop Processes: Create, refine, and follow policies and procedures for incident management, escalation, and communication to minimise downtime and impact on the player experience.
Diagnose and troubleshoot issues: Utilise monitoring tools to identify root causes efficiently, perform basic debugging to restore backend services quickly during incidents.
Process Improvement: You will work closely with the leadership team to identify and resolve high priority issues within the organisation and drive for overall improvement in the way we operate.
What We Value:
Customer First Approach: You will have experience in a customer facing role and put customer experience first in all interactions.
Problem-Solving: The ability to think clearly and make decisive actions in high-stress situations, with a strong analytical mindset.
Proactive Mindset: A commitment to proactive monitoring and resolution of issues before they become more serious.
Technical Proficiency: Demonstrated capability in essential technical tasks, including (but not limited to) connecting to and diagnosing server faults, performing basic network debugging, and familiarity with scripting for automation and troubleshooting.
You May Also Have:
Experience in video game live operations, with backend systems and game server management.
Experience working in a NOC or technical support environment, with an understanding of incident response protocols and service level agreements (SLAs)
Experience in a customer engineering or technical account management role.
Familiarity with data and analytics platforms used for reporting on operational performance.
Familiarity with help desk/ticketing software (e.g., Zendesk, Pylon, Jira).
Experience writing technical documentation and runbooks.
What We Can Offer:
Competitive Salary and Benefits Package: Your health and wellbeing is important to us, so we offer a variety of benefits including:
Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Matching
Annual Leave, Plus 9 Paid Holidays and Winter Break Office Closure
Annual Research Credit: We always encourage personal growth, so we provide all of our team members with an annual credit to further enhance your skills!
Professional Development: We offer biannual reviews, as well as opportunities to collaborate across disciplines, internal tech talks, and the chance to learn from specialists with backgrounds from across the games and software development industries.
Work-Life Balance: We really believe that home life comes first and we promote a flexible working environment. And as an added bonus: We don’t crunch!
Office Perks: In addition to everything above, we also provide:
Weekly Team Lunches (plus Snacks!)
Fully Equipped Team Lounge, Including our Favorite Consoles and Games
And, most importantly, a supportive and creative working environment made up of talented and friendly people, as well as the opportunity to work on some pretty cool games and projects – if we do say so ourselves!
A Friendly Note from the Recruitment Team:
Let us do the work for you: Even if your profile isn't an exact match for all of the qualifications listed above, we still want you to apply. Our team members come from a variety of different industries, not all of which are immediately relevant to game or software development, and we welcome all candidates of similarly varied backgrounds, communities, and identities.
Rocket Science is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a worry-free workplace void of discrimination or harassment. Rocket Scientists are expected to foster and champion an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.
Rocket Science does not accept unsolicited résumés from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms.
The salary for this role is typically within the range of $55,000- $85,000/year. Please note that this range includes multiple levels of experience and actual pay will ultimately be contingent upon a variety of factors, including your own combination of experience, skills, and qualifications.
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