Notorious' mission is to bring players together in deep worlds through our games. Our first game Legacy: Steel & Sorcery intends to utilize game services like login, social features, matchmaking, player data and more.

As a Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Operations Engineer at Notorious Studios, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our game infrastructure along helping build distributed services for running a live game.

What project you'd be working on

We're currently building a new core fantasy RPG game for PC/Console using Unreal 5. Elements of this project include open worlds, core RPG fantasy theme, PvPvE, third-person action-based combat, player stories, and engaging systems. It's still very early and anything can change, which you can be a part of shaping.

About Notorious

Notorious Studios is a venture-backed start-up founded by core developers from Blizzard Entertainment who worked on titles like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch.

We aspire to have a flatter organizational structure where everyone has a chance to lead. We have a culture of open and candid communication where the best idea wins. 

As a startup, we're focused on minimizing wasted time and maximizing results. We have a hatred of bureaucracy and are focused on our mission of bringing underserved players new experiences that only a small, agile studio can accomplish.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable game backend infrastructure.

• Support on-going Live Ops and ensure the smooth operation of our game backend system using metrics and alert management.

• Design, implement, and manage distributed systems with a focus on high concurrency and scalability.

• Design and optimize database systems, ensuring high availability and performance.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in building and managing scalable distributed systems.

• Strong understanding of WebSocket and RPC communication protocols.

• Expertise in database design and high concurrency systems.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and autoscaling systems

• Proficiency in building out infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code Tools

• Previous experience in Live Ops support for high-concurrency systems.

Ideally, you have (but not required):

• Building backend services using C#.

• Experience working managing infrastructure in AWS using Kubernetes and IoC (Pulumi, Terraform)

• Experience working with NoSQL (Redis) and SQL (PostgresDB) databases.

• Previous experience in cross-platform game development and integrating with Third-Party APIs

Benefits

• An office! We believe in the creative power of working in person. Our schedule is Tues-Thurs in-office, Monday, Friday WFH (optional)

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision

• Open paid-time-off policy with a minimum enforced by the company. We trust you to take time off when you need it

• Competitive salaries that value your experience and dedication

• Stock options in an early stage startup. We want you to be motivated to stick with us for the long haul

• Relocation assistance, and immigration where applicable

Notorious is  an early-stage startup!

• Notorious uses geopay when determining salaries. This means that colleagues are compensated based on the cost of living in their geographic location.

• While Notorious offers competitive salaries on average, our compensation is undermarket from what you'll find at the top, larger, established AAA studios. The way in which we make up for this is by offering equity. This has potential for high rewards, but also a risk of failure if we don't achieve our mission.

• In order to suceed at a startup, we must be Hardcore, Work with a Sense of Urgency and be All-in. If you feel like you're in the stage of your career where you either want to move fast and learn a lot of new things or capitalize on all of your experience you've learned in your long career, this can be for you. However, startups are not for the feint of heart -- you have to be okay with self-managing yourself, wearing multiple hats (or roles) and embracing the chaos of uncertainty. 

• Notorious does not have a "bonus" compensation structure, and instead pays in pure salary as we believe bonuses can sometimes incentivize the wrong behaviors.