About the company
Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences. To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. Genies has raised $250M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion.
Job Summary
What You’ll be Doing:
📍Automate, test, and deploy well-designed infrastructure as code, and services at scale 📍Manage AWS services to host infrastructure for frontend, backend, web, and unity engineers to use and build on 📍Monitor infrastructure and applications using metrics, logs, dashboards and alarms 📍Profile and optimize for load, latency, reliability, availability, fault tolerance, and observability 📍Apply best practices in all aspects of service availability including security, testability, release management, live ops 📍Collaborate with team members on architectural designs and code reviews 📍Partner cross functionally with all levels of the organization 📍Provide emergency response either by being on-call or by reacting to symptoms according to monitoring and escalation when needed 📍Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages to prevent future service incidents 📍Measure the risk of introduced features to plan ahead and improve the infrastructure.
What You Should Have:
📍Bachelor degree in Computer Science or 5+ years professional experience as a reliability, systems, devops, infrastructure, or platform engineer 📍Proficiency in Python and/or Golang 📍Solid foundation in systems engineering and live operations 📍Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code with Terraform 📍Expert knowledge of Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform 📍Experience supporting designing and working with Rest APIs, distributed NoSQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven and multi-tier architectures 📍Expertise in applying software patterns and Microservices patterns 📍Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cost-effective cloud architecture 📍Strong knowledge of CI/CD with AWS Codepipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
