Lead build engineer

Infinity Ward is looking for a talented Lead Build Engineer to join our development team working on Call of Duty!

The Build team at Infinity Ward knows just how critical they are to delivering a world class gaming experience. Responsible for the end-to-end workflows across multiple development branches, this team owns the orchestration and provisioning services needed to create, package, and test a massive amount of build artifacts, including support for multiple gaming platforms (Play Station/Xbox/Nintendo/Windows). The associated explosion of data requires creative engineering solutions that continuously optimize performance, intelligently throttle throughput, and properly scale the capacity needed to facilitate our massive CI/CD pipeline.

Regular engagement with customers, including the engineering, design, production, and art departments, facilitates in-depth exploration of the various tools utilized in professional game development. This practice is encouraged to foster a comprehensive understanding of our toolchain and the critical dependencies necessary for effective system optimization.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning video game developer, and work with the best gaming talent in the world. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing within an end-to-end build pipeline responsible for the production of top-tier games or services. We are looking for someone who is passionate about making an impact across the organization, comfortable with frequent context switching, and confident in making informed decisions.

• Responsibilities include a wide range of systems engineering tasks across multiple domains:
• Gather and prioritize requirements from engineers, content creators, and designers, whose success depends on your ability to increase their workflow efficiency.
• Lead a team in the development of a game project.
• Design and develop various services, tools, and workflows across the end-to-end build pipeline, while maintaining laser focus on the availability, predictability, and performance of your services.
• Take initiative to find and solve challenging problems across an ecosystem of cross-studio services and process.
• Promote collaboration within and across team boundaries, while looking for opportunities to mentor, educate and/or support those around you.
• Drive continuous innovation by advocating best practices that impact code health, testing, and maintainability.
• Define new metrics and systems for observing, evaluating, and further optimizing business processes.
• Maintain and evolve infrastructure needed to scale studio services such as:
  Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, Distribution and Caching systems
• 6+ years of experience within CI/CD pipelines operating at enterprise scale
• Experience leading and managing a team.
• Proficiency in Python, or comparable scripting language
• Experience with distributed build and version control systems
• In-depth understanding of modern design patterns (REST interaction with backend services)
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience managing/scaling datacenter capacity (VMs, games consoles, etc)
• Experience with containerization technology (Docker)
• Experience leveraging cloud hosting platforms (Azure, GCP)
• Experience with game or media development

• Passion for test automation frameworks
• Background in C/C++ and/or C#
• Experience with platform-specific content packaging processes (Xbox, Play Station, Nintendo, etc.)

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