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Some examples of things we’re working on include CI/CD, observability, mesh networking, build pipelines, etc. Some of the technologies we use to make all of those are Go, Python, GCP, Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio.\nYou will mentor and guide engineers, collaborate closely with design and product, and make architectural decisions regarding the infrastructure and backend development platform.\nIn your day to day you work as an amplifier for cross team communication & collaboration.\n\nExample of responsibilities: Leadership & Collaboration\nManagerial responsibilities (not limited to) hiring & onboarding of new employees and long-term career development.\n\nServe the know-how & share best practices: coaching people to make the right decisions across dependencies and to raise concerns and needs.\n\nCollaborate with backend services teams, the game server infrastructure team and other users of the common development platform such as data analytics and anti-cheat to define, scope, and deliver new features and improvements.\n\nPlanning and working for sustainability / scalability of team and throughput, including headcount planning and scoping.\n\nExample of responsibilities: Architecture & Development\nSupport the design and evolution of robust, scalable systems within backend engineering teams in the organization (e.g. player-progression, matchmaking, etc…)\n\nEnsure high performance and reliability by improving monitoring of our fleets\n\nFoster best practices in code quality, automated testing, performance profiling, and release reliability.\n\nLower cognitive load by building tools and automation to make development iterations simpler and faster.\n\nWe would love if you have\nA creative and curious mind\n\nA solid and proven background from software engineering and architectural leadership with previous experience developing large scale systems.\n\nExperience from a high-paced engineering organization working with CI, scalability, and automation, etc.\n\nExperience in working with a diverse set of partners and helping them understand the trade-offs to different product and technical decisions.\n\nLearning, collaborative and sharing approach as well as motivation to take initiative and drive\n\nThe ability to be a great team player with good communication skills\n\nProven leadership qualities, including splendid recommendation stats from former team members\n\nProfessional English communication skills.\n\nAt Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.\nBe yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. 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