We are a leading game developer & publisher, capable of producing social games from inception to completion. We are the home of popular game titles Juice Cubes and Jungle Cubes, with many more on the way! In two years of mobile game development, our games have achieved over 22 million downloads around the world.

Pocket PlayLab was founded in January 2012 by a handful of passionate gamers. Now, we are a group of 80+ game enthusiasts ranging more than 13 nationalities. We are a curious, creative, close-knit, fun-loving bunch. We have a unique way of doing things - the Pocket PlayLab way. It’s how we innovate, collaborate, operate and deliver value for our customers.

We are looking for dynamic, & team-oriented individuals to join our rapidly growing company as we continue forward to the next level.

The role

As an operations engineer on our backend team your prime responsibility is to work together with your team mates on making sure our backend is running reliably at all times.

You will get to work on technologies such as Ruby (mostly RoR), eventmachine, MySQL, Redis and Cassandra. We are however not set on these technologies and they will most likely change in the future, you will be part of figuring out which technology to bring in next.

What you would be doing:

• Collaborate with software engineers to improve current features and bring new into production.

• Making sure our backend services are always up and running.

• Automating everything from continous integration, monitoring, incident reporting and servers.

• Monitor backend reliability and responsiveness.

• Scale infrastructure to meet demands of new titles and increasing amounts of users.

About you:

• You have experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers

• You have in depth knowledge of underlying protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS.

• You have experience with automation tools (chef, pupper, cfengine, ansible, salt etc.)

• You are able to run an maintain Linux based server systems.

• You are not afraid to dig deep into a problem.

• You do not believe operations and server management is much different from writing high-quality software.

• You value maintainable software/systems.

• You write clean easy to understand code.

• You speak and write English.

• Experience with backend development is a plus.

• Experience with TDD is a plus.

• Open source contributions is a plus.

What we look for in all new employees

• Gets things done and think about the long term impact of their work.

• An eagerness to learn more.

• Fun to be around even when all systems have gone haywire.

Bonus & Perks

• Workstation of your choice (iMac, Macbook etc.)

• Opportunity to grow with the company;

• An amazing workplace with super fun gaming and break areas;

• Attractive salary package; (Including yearly bonus)

• Free daily lunch, snacks and drinks;

• 12 days of Vacation plus 13 days of public holidays per year;

• Invitations to cool social events.

• Being part of Asia’s most influential gaming company.

Please apply directly at www.playlab.com/careers