Senior Infrastructure Engineer
About this role
We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our team in Reykjavík. In this role, you will design and build the distributed systems that run our AAA rated MMO, EVE Online: one persistent world, no instancing, tens of thousands of players sharing the same simulation. You possess a solid grasp of distributed systems, together with a genuine feel for reasoning about consistency, latency, and failure at scale.
Your Tasks
- System Design: Design and build the distributed systems that partition and rebalance simulation load across nodes.
- Consistency and Failure: Keep state consistent under partial failure, and shape the failure semantics so a bad node degrades one region instead of taking down a fight.
- Performance: Design messaging and RPC paths where latency budgets are measured in milliseconds.
- Services and Data: Work on service decomposition, service interfaces, data replication, and caching strategies.
- Implementation and Delivery: Write code, take a design from design review through to production, and manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Measurement and Iteration: Instrument your work, load test it, and use that evidence to shape the next iteration.
- Collaboration: Work with product owners and game designers to understand what a feature demands of the platform, then design systems that meet those demands within real constraints.
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