Lead Site Reliability Engineer, StarCraft/Unannounced Survival Game

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Job Description:

At Blizzard Entertainment, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) use systems expertise combined with software engineering patterns to help define, create, and support the architecture, build systems, orchestration, and operations of services across the business. Our Team Leads are uniquely placed in order to directly focus and optimize the efforts of highly skilled SREs in key areas to maximize the effectiveness of a fairly small team. This role depends heavily on technical knowledge, the ability to foster and maintain relationships with our partner development teams, and developing our SREs of all levels.

Blizzard's games and platforms reach a global audience of passionate gamers. The scale is massive and the challenges are very real, but the wise application of technology is the answer to keep it all running reliably with minimal guidance. Our Site Reliability Engineers are at the heart of this work, working directly with the engineering teams from ideation to release, in order to deliver the most epic (and reliable!) experiencesever.

As a Lead on the SRE team at Blizzard, you may find yourself

• Leveraging your technical experience to coordinate and maximize impact across several groups of SREs while minimizing duplicated efforts
• Evaluating the technical challenges of our partner teams and applying your experience to help lead the assembled team(s) to provide strong value-driven solutions.
• Mentoring, developing, and inspiring, as well as learning from, the SREs that report to you
• Identifying areas of stagnation or inefficiency within our game teams and partnering with stakeholders to make the necessary changes to fulfill the SRE vision
• Continuously working with SRE leadership, as well as the business as a whole, to make our team a top-tier destination for the most talented engineers in the industry
• Sharing ideas and technology to partner teams throughout Blizzard in a clear and effective way
• Working with stakeholders to drive a blameless culture around incident management

You may succeed in this role if you

• Love to solve novel and exciting problems
• Thrive on making big-picture impact and continuously looking for disruptive positive change
• Are inspired to make everyone's job easier by improving workflows
• Take pride in your team and succeeding through others
• Are driven to nurture and develop highly effective engineers
• Strive to be better, smarter, and faster tomorrow than you are today
• Enjoy trying new technologies to improve what we're doing today
• Possess the technical knowledge to understand the challenges facing the team
• Naturally spread the philosophies and practices of SRE to others
• Like to collaborate with others to solve problems, share knowledge, and provide feedback
• Can self-assess the needs of a system or team, and make a case to prioritize that work
• Know when and how to say "No"

SREs at Blizzard are expected to become experts in the technologies used by the teams they are working with. Below is a non-exhaustive list of technologies SREs, and the Leads by extension, may be exposed to:

• Service-Level Objectives (SLI, SLO, SLA, Error Budget, Burn Rate)
• Distributed Systems (HA/FT, microservices)
• IaaC and Config Management (Puppet, Terraform, Ansible)
• Container Computing (Kubernetes, Service Mesh)
• Cloud Services and Architecture (AWS, GCP, OpenStack)
• Distributed Message Bus (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Proxies and Load Balancing (Nginx, HAProxy, Envoy)
• Monitoring (Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Datadog)
• Logging (Splunk, SysLog, ELK Stack, Linux Journal, grep)
• Source Control (GitHub Enterprise, Perforce)
• CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo, Spinnaker)
• Linux (Bash, service debugging, performance tuning)
• Networking (Triaging, performance tuning)
• Programming (Python, Go, C#, C++)

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. However, we understand each person's circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore other possible options, including remote work arrangements.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We've worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiencesever. Join us!

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $121,500.00 - $224,880.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.