At Embark, you will join a small team working on backend services that power player-facing features and online systems at scale. In this role, you will work with social and account related backend systems, enabling features such as voice chat, messaging, parties, and player connectivity. These systems handle identity, communication, and social interaction between players across our games.
The challenges you will solve are similar to those found in large-scale communication and identity platforms, but applied to games.
You will work in distributed systems running in production. Most of your time will be spent in a small number of core services, while understanding how they connect to the larger system.
Because the team is small, you are expected to take responsibility, ask questions and identify what needs to be done.
Our stack includes Go, C++, SQL using Google Spanner, Redis, GCP, Kubernetes, and Bazel.
Example of responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain social and account backend services
Work with distributed systems in production
Collaborate with backend, game server, and infrastructure teams to build reliable online systems
Improve tooling, workflows, and architecture when needed
It would be awesome if you have
Strong programming skills and professional experience with Go
Experience working with SQL based systems, Spanner is a strong plus
Experience with distributed systems
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments, preferably GCP
The ability to take ownership and drive work forward
A curious mindset and comfort working in complex systems
Professional English communication skills
Bonus
Experience building or operating authentication systems using OpenID or similar standards
Experience with C++
At Embark we offer competitive salaries, a generous profit-sharing program, 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.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and are looking forward to reading more about you (in English)!
At Embark Studios we believe that progress starts with curiosity. This belief fuels everything we do—from the people we hire, the culture we nurture, and the products we create. We're now more than 300 game-makers, applying breakthrough technologies to reimagine how games are made and what they can become. In 2023 Embark released THE FINALS®, our first game. We're now about to release ARC Raiders, a tense extraction adventure.
