Magnopus
Magnopus

Principal Cloud Hosted Services Engineer

$160,000 – $200,000 per year

TLDR

Architect and implement cloud-based hosted services that drive the technical strategy for our cloud infrastructure, while mentoring cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities
  • Work with product owners to develop the product vision and roadmap

  • Provide all of the product teams with technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance

  • Document and diagram proposed solutions, and ensure documentation and diagrams remain current for all deployments.

  • Advise end-to-end development of new features from concept through testing and deployment

  • Mentor others in the writing of clean, well-documented, testable OOP code following KISS/SOLID principles

  • Mentor others in how to develop cloud-native applications

  • Advocate for non-functional requirements like performance, versioning, deployability, configurability, observability, scalability, security, etc.

  • Meticulous attention to detail and high quality of work

  • Build up and maintain our DevOps/CI environment through research, implementation and monitoring

  • Create alerts and data mine logs and metrics for issues in cloud hosted services and the client applications that call to the services

  • Ability to design and architect service level componentry 

  • Spike testing and rapid prototyping

Required Qualifications
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Excellent knowledge in designing and developing complex, multi-tier, cloud-native software applications

  • Advanced knowledge in architecting cloud solutions in GCP or AWS (we are migrating from AWS to GCP)

  • Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes (EKS and/or GKE)

  • Advanced experience with automating the provisioning of cloud resources using infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)

  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI (we use TeamCity and GitHub Actions)

  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as DataDog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana (we use DataDog and are migrating to Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana for monitoring and ELK stack for logs)

  • Experience with a high-level language like C#, Java, JavaScript, or Golang (we use C#, C++, JavaScript, and Python)

  • Creating and consuming RESTful web services and experience with 3rd party APIs

  • Well-versed in optimizing database queries to NoSQL databases (we use MongoDB)  

  • Good understanding of design patterns

  • Experience leveraging LLMs and operating Agents to assist with tasks and development

Nice to Haves
  • Experience with big data, stream processing and machine learning algorithms

  • Experience with geospatial applications & databases

  • Working in an agile environment (we use a mix of Scrum and Kanban)

  • Experience or knowledge of dependency injection 

  • Experience with real-time, multiplayer services

  • Google Cloud Certification

  • Experience with Kubernetes-adjacent tooling like Helm, Kustomize, and ArgoCD

  • Understanding of effective unit testing and experience with Visual Studio Tests or NUnit

  • Experience creating mock objects using Moq, NSubstitute or other mocking framework

Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.
 
Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits. 
 
We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.
 
Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:
 
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process - for example, to transcribe interviews and generate summaries. These tools are not used to review applications or analyse resumes, and they do not replace human judgement. All hiring decisions are made by people. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Magnopus creates immersive experiences that bridge the gap between physical and digital realms, leveraging expertise from a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers. Our innovative solutions cater to industries seeking to enhance user engagement and interaction in a cohesive environment, driven by a commitment to collaboration and diverse perspectives.

Founded
Founded 2013
Employees
51-200 employees
Industry
Professional Services
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