Craft: Technology & Development
At King, millions of players connect to our games every day. They rely on our infrastructure to be up 24/7, 365 days a year to maximize their experience with our games. We believe that you share our passion for learning new things, coding (primarily in Python), quality, automation, continuous improvements, and actively building and upholding a great culture. Our collaboration with Google and CNCF will enable you to really dive deep into cloud technologies.
Your role within our Kingdom: Our job is to build effective, stable, and reliable large-scale infrastructure tools and services for our platform, games, and product teams. We strive to empower developers to be autonomous and flexible.
We continuously work to create self-service models for our tech in close collaboration with development teams. We care deeply about our culture and believe in:
An inclusive and diverse workplace
Continuous improvement of everything we do
Automation and coding as much as possible
Collaboration and blame-free problem solving
Asking for help and sharing ideas openly
Skills to create thrills:
Knowledge about cloud networking such as VPC, firewall, load balancing, and subnets
Architecture experience in GCP or AWS including experience migrating workloads
Experience in writing software in one or more languages such as Python or Go
Experience in deploying and managing multi-tenant Kubernetes environments
Orchestration with Terraform
Able to communicate proficiently in written and spoken English
About King: King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King's games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
A Great Saga Needs 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 cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.
Making the World Playful: Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It's what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players - and we're not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us.
We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful! Applications need to be in English.
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