Lead / Principal Cloud Engineer

Join Skillz and Level Up Your Career!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide.

Skillz is revolutionizing the gaming industry, providing the ultimate platform for competitive mobile games. By fostering social competition within games, Skillz empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.

At Skillz, we firmly believe that everyone is born with unique skills and deserves to experience an epic win. We understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges.

That's why we passionately champion game developers and players alike, empowering them to unleash their full potential through the power of competition.

Life @ Skillz

Culture of Impact : Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value and make a difference in the world.

Comprehensive Benefits : We value our team members and provide a comprehensive benefits package to ensure your well-being.

Enjoy 401K matching, equity incentives, extensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, pre-tax benefit options, and more.

Work-Life Balance : Achieving work-life balance is important to us. We offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions.

Perks : We believe in enhancing your work experience. Enjoy weekly team lunches, snacks, Friday Happy Hours, commuter benefits, insurances, and many more.

Why Skillz?

Pioneers of Skill-Based Competition : Skillz is not just any company in the gaming industry; we are the pioneer of skill-based competition.

Join us in transforming the way people play games and building the home of competition for all.

Impact Beyond Gaming : Skillz harnesses the power of its platform to support nonprofit organizations such as the American Red Cross, Susan G.

Komen, American Cancer Society, the NAACP, and more. By participating in Skillz tournaments, you can make a difference and contribute to causes you care about.

Recognized Success : Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc.

5000 list, and many more.

Talent Magnet : Join a team of talented professionals who are passionate about what they do. Our team includes experts from Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Roblox, Samsung, EA, Riot, Tinder, Intel, Twitch, and more.

The Future of Gaming Awaits!

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books combined, with over 3 billion active gamers playing monthly and over 25 million active developers worldwide.

Mobile gaming, in particular, is the fastest-growing segment, projected to reach $300 billion by 2025. At Skillz, you have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this exciting industry and shape its future.

About the role :

Our team is building the cloud infrastructure and application delivery platform that is powering Skillz engineering. We are leveraging containers, Kubernetes, GitOps practices, and developing cutting edge CI / CD tooling to name a few important areas of development.

What you'll do :

• Designing, implementing, and delivering core platform infrastructure and services to production
• Understanding the needs of Skillz engineering teams and develop tooling to increase development efficiency
• Proactively maintain the availability of Skillz’s cloud infrastructure
• Work closely with engineering teams to constantly improve the stability and observability of all services in the Skillz ecosystem
• Enable and manage seamless upgrades of infrastructure and services through automation
• Leverage container platforms such as Kubernetes for large-scale deployment of microservices
• Design, deploy, and manage Skillz’s infrastructure in public clouds (AWS or GCP)
• Identify, gather, analyze and automate responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts
• Ensure infrastructure security compliance
• Disaster recovery planning and regional failover testing
• Automatic scaling of infrastructure and services
• Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
• Develop and optimize continuous integration and deployment processes (CI / CD)
• Conduct periodic on-call duties as needed on a regular scheme basis

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent in one or more of Go, Python, Java, or Ruby
• Deep knowledge of containerization and cloud services frameworks in both Kubernetes and AWS
• 6+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure or backend engineering
• Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Excellent skills in process, documentation, and change management.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting tools such as New Relic, ELK, Datadog, and PagerDuty

Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming!

Our Perks

Skillz offers competitive compensation packages with a salary, bonuses, and restricted stock grants. Generous company-paid benefits, time-off, leave, 401k match, etc.

Check out our career page for more information. Compensation starting at $187,000. Actual base pay will depend on varying circumstances, including leveling, experience, and location.

L1-N1 #LI-Onsite

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .