Senior Backend Programmer

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios
, the award-winning development team behind Starfield
, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout
. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations:
Rockville, MD;
Montreal, Quebec;
Austin, TX;
Dallas, TX.

Senior Backend Programmer role: design, implement, maintain backend services in cloud and build game side APIs to talk to them. This involves analyzing requirements, developing architecture plans, managing cloud microservice applications for performance and security.

In your role as Senior Backend Programmer
, you will…

• Help architect, build, and maintain cloud-based microservice systems primarily in Golang and C++ to support Bethesda Game Studios games. This will include both services for the games and services to support development of the games.
• Code review and mentor more junior team members.
• Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives.
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to processes and tools.
• Lead and participate in team or customer meetings as necessary.

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• You have previous experience building and architecting microservice based distributed applications for deployment to a cloud environment.
• You have a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• You have 10+ years experience in object-oriented and asynchronous programming in multiple languages (you are a polyglot), preferably C++, Golang, Python, and C# (Java acceptable substitute for Golang or Python if you have C++).
• You have 5+ years building microservices in the cloud using HTTP protocols, message brokers, caching, and database systems to support a microservice based architecture.
• You have 5+ years architecting scalable database solutions to work with microservice architecture (Relational and/or No
  
  SQL).
• You have been responsible for coding and/or reviewing the code for most of the skills listed below.
• You have significant experience working in a Linux based environment including basic system administration and performance management.
• You have familiarity with front end frameworks like React or similar.
• You have familiarity with Cloud Architecture in AWS and Azure, Containerization systems, and Dev Ops principles.
• Previous on call experience where you can identify root causes of issues and fix most issues independently.

What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Programming

• Solid Computer Science fundamentals including design patterns, algorithms and algorithmic complexity, memory management, state/object management, compilation, execution, and asynchronous processing and how all these apply to the language you are working with.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented principles including application of composition vs inheritance as well as SOLID principles as it applies to the language you are working with.
• Expertise in async programming principles and networked applications.
• Solid Golang or Java.
• Proficiency with Python or C#.
• Proficiency in how to build multi-layered microservice architecture at enterprise scale.
• Proficiency in message broker and caching system and how to use them to further scale over a microservice architecture.
• Knowledge of where horizontal scale in cloud architecture fails.
• Knowledge of cost implications of different architectures.

Cloud Platform Proficiency

• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with services and technologies available in Azure and AWS you can build upon.
• Ability to develop towards Azure using a multi-cloud framework while managing capacity issues and fallback…