Platform Engineer
We're a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard with a 25 day minimum enforced. We play games together, we work hard together.
Summary:
A platform engineer is responsible for the uptime, innovation, and quality of the Netspeak platform. We run our own games at Netspeak - on our own containerised cloud agnostic technology. This includes running the game servers, building micro services for access and storage of the game data and any observability needs of the game engineers (logging, tracing, metrics etc.).
Platform works with a platform-as-a-service model with our primary customer being the game team developing our internal games. You will be helping to ensure that the team can keep moving forward with the highest possible velocity whilst keeping a stable platform. Along with this the platform team develops microservices that are consumed by the game team such as matchmaking, game data and social.
Responsibilities:
Build platform infrastructure, tools & processes in order to ensure that our technology is globally deployed, observable and responsive whilst leveraging open source or off the shelf products to ensure the platform meets the needs of our games.
Collaborate with the game teams to ensure their vision & requirements are satisfied by the platform; document technical requirements; and ensure that they are updated with the capabilities of the platform
Automate as much as possible including builds, workflows & tools; aiming for a self-service model for our internal customers
Liaise with the production & commercial teams offering guidance where possible - Netspeak is a very data driven company!
Design and architect the platform for not only our current needs but keeping the platform malleable and extensible for future upgrades
Your mission:
Netspeak aims to build social worlds that people want to spend time in. Your mission is to enable the game teams to move faster and take bigger risks.
You are the driving force behind the platform. You will be empowered to make decisions and improvements that will benefit stakeholders designing, building & running games. From ensuring the games are scheduled efficiently to having ownership of the error rates of our data services (social, game data etc.).
Day to Day:
Platform Engineers will be writing code mainly in Go to be deployed into contains running in a serverless model. The game team will be deploying their servers into a Kubernetes environment and calling out to various HTTP and gRPC endpoints to enrich the experience of the players.
Platform is also responsible for the uptime of the infrastructure and applications whilst supporting other teams on best practice for supporting software in production.
Salary is expected to be between £50,000 & £100,000 per annum d.o.e
- Department
- Platform
- Locations
- London Office
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
London Office
Perks and benefits
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⚡️ Time to recharge
To do your best work, you need healthy work/life balance, headspace, and plenty of time to recharge your creative batteries! We finish early on Fridays and operate with zero-cruch. We also don't set a limit on paid time off, and make sure everyone takes at least 25 days annual leave.
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👶 Families welcome!
We offer enhanced pay support for pregnant employees.
(Weeks 1 – 12 at 100% pay. Weeks 13 - 20 at 50% pay. Weeks 21 – 24 at 25% pay. Weeks 25 – 39 at the Statutory Maternity Pay rate).
For secondary carers we offer four weeks at 100% pay. Several Netspeakers are proud parents, and we’re often happily treated to guest baby appearances in meetings!
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🎓 Monthly learning
We want all Netspeakers to grow, experiment, learn, and develop while they’re here. Every month, we devote half a day to independent learning - setting time aside to read books, attend talks, try out new things, skill up via courses & more.
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✨ Work together, play together
Our games are fun. Our workplace should be too! We’re a friendly bunch, always looking for a chance to do playful stuff as a team. We run D&D Thursdays, MTG lunches, and all Netspeakers are invited to play games together for the last hour of every Tuesday. (Expect frequent tasty treats through the post too!)
Remote first
What you bring to the table is way more important than where you sit at it. If you’ve got the stuff, you’re a Netspeaker - whether you’re working from home, our London office, your local hotdesk, or all three.
Diversity & inclusion
We’re committed to making Netspeak an equal & empowering workplace, for all.
Our internal D&I working group regularly explores ways we can better represent marginalised groups in our game, Sunshine Days. Meanwhile in the real world, we’re working hard to welcome and support staff from all backgrounds, races, beliefs, identities, sexualities & more.
We’re also dedicated to remaining open and transparent about what we’re doing to be inclusive at Netspeak, and what we still need to work on. Right now, we’re 60% female and minority genders, 30% LGBTQIA, and 20% BIPOC. Our senior team is 50% male/female and 8% BIPOC.
All work, all play
We’re an ambitious studio with big dreams! So pushing ourselves to do our best work is kind of a given. The pay-off? We really take care of our staff. Providing unlimited holiday, monthly learning sessions, early-finish Fridays & more 💛
About Netspeak Games
Hi 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games!
Netspeak was founded on the idea that great games start with great, happy teams. So from the very beginning, we’ve made it our mission to build a company with people at its heart.
Creativity, care, and community is our DNA. Here, we celebrate our differences. Cherish our imperfections. Seek and value diversity. We’re energetic, joyful makers, daring to do things differently. And we’ve worked hard to build a company culture that empowers our team to be their brilliant, best, authentic selves.
Pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity, we build beautifully-crafted wholesome games, designed to surprise & delight! 💛
Platform Engineer
We're a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard with a 25 day minimum enforced. We play games together, we work hard together.
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