Site Reliability Engineer (f/m/x)

INTRODUCTION

Competition Company is an ambitious young studio, driven by the passion of the youth and enabled by gaming, esports and racing veterans. With our main offices situated in Munich (Germany), and Malmö (Sweden), we are proud of having a distributed team across various countries and cities. 
We are in the race of our lives with a precise motivation: offer players, digital racers and car enthusiasts the ultimate playground for them to enjoy, share, create and even monetize their passion for cars and digital racing.  

The product 
RENNSPORT is the playground for car enthusiasts. A live-service racing simulation in its alpha stage of development with thousands of eager players already on the waiting list for release, as well as a top tier live competition dubbed “ESL R1”. 
RENNSPORT (the game) and ESL R1 are the tip of the iceberg in our vision to completely transform how players and fans engage with racing games, where the community of players, modders, and pro drivers are front and centre of everything we do.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of the development team for our upcoming online racing simulator, RENNSPORT. Your primary role will be to design, implement and operate RENNSPORT's server and service infrastructure. You will work closely with stakeholders in the team and within the Competition Company group to help ship a great online experience for our players.  
This is a permanent remote position based around Malmö, Sweden or Munich, Germany. We do not require on-site presence but definitely welcome it - travel to one of our office locations may be required periodically. We kindly ask you to apply with your CV and message to the hiring manager / cover letter in English.

In this role, you will be responsible for: 

• Designing and implementing a scalable and resilient online infrastructure
• Managing and automating the deployment pipeline of online services
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizing online services 
• Redefining deployment/debugging workflows and technology stacks to meet ambitious goals
• Working closely with game developers and backend programmers on related initiatives
• Managing incidents and partake in the on-call rotation

YOUR PROFILE

• You can self-organize and are comfortable working autonomously on a short time scale

• You can take factual, data-driven decisions and convey your ideas clearly and concisely to other team members, peers or stakeholders

• You enjoy working with a small close team, open to new ideas, learning opportunities and experimentation

• You are curiosity driven and not afraid to approach problems by thinking outside the box

• You have experience in designing, analyzing, maintaining and troubleshooting distributed systems

• Automation and orchestration are the only ways you approach systems implementation and maintenance  
  
  

You will probably enjoy this position if you like working with:

• IaaS such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure
• Linux
• Containers and workload orchestrators such as Kubernetes, Nomad, etc.
• A passion or desire to work with the Go/Rust programming languages
• Terraform
• Git

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US

• Full-time role in Malmö, Sweden OR Munich, Germany OR Remote (Sweden/Germany ONLY)

• The opportunity to be part of the early team that wants to change digital racing  

• Have clear and direct impact on our product and players experiences  

• An attractive, market-standard, salary package  

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ABOUT US

Competition Company is an ambitious young studio, driven by the passion of the youth and enabled by gaming, esports and racing veterans. With our main offices situated in Munich (Germany), and Malmö (Sweden), we are proud of having a distributed team across various countries and cities. 

We are in the race of our lives with a precise motivation: offer players, digital racers and car enthusiasts the ultimate playground for them to enjoy, share, create and even monetize their passion for cars and digital racing.    

At Competition Company we value:  

• Responsibility and self-development – those who take ownership of their tasks and goals and always strive to be and make the team better every single day;  
• Integrity and transparency – those who are known for candour and transparency, that own mistakes and share learnings, but also speak up when there are challenges;  
• Curiosity and open-mindedness – those who love to learn and explore new news, that see patterns and connections that most people miss, that care about what our players struggle with and that enjoy to think and operate outside the box;  
• Work hard, have fun – those who understand that deadlines will always have a place in their work routine, but that do not forget to have fun, be healthy, and enjoy their private life.