Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Platform

About the role

Fenris Creations is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for its infrastructure team, which owns the core platform powering EVE Online. The team builds a reliable foundation that scales with players, and the senior engineer owns large, open-ended projects such as improving login speed and safety, handling node failures during fleet engagements, or finding where latency occurs in an RPC path. The engineer defines the problem, proposes a direction, splits the work and builds it with the team.

Key responsibilities

• Turn goals such as "improve authentication" into designs broken into milestones, laying out tradeoffs and reaching agreement with the team and stakeholders.
• Write production code, mostly in Go, from service interfaces and data models to inter-service messaging, and take the design through review to launch.
• Estimate throughput, storage and latency, then load test and failure test the result.
• Design how state is partitioned, replicated and cached so a failing node degrades only one region.
• Explain designs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders, review others' work and mentor.

Required profile

• Clean, tested code in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, Java, C++, C# or TypeScript; Go is used mostly and expected to be picked up quickly.
• Able to break large, ambiguous problems into smaller ones and design systems end to end with realistic estimates.
• Knowledge of data structures and complexity, concurrency, data stores at scale, and why networks and services fail.
• Experience leading a project from a fuzzy idea to a shipped result in increments.
• Excellent written and spoken communication, and a habit of measuring what is built.
• Degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Prior hands-on experience with distributed systems patterns: RPC, pub/sub, message queues, event streaming, replication and partitioning.
• Experience running services on AWS, Azure or Kubernetes.
• Exposure to tracing, metrics and structured logging (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) and UNIX/networking (TCP/IP, load balancing) experience.

What we offer

• Working on the award-winning MMO EVE Online in a multicultural environment.
• Double workstation setup and flexible work environment.
• Division events, a canteen with breakfast, lunch, drinks and snacks, and home internet.
• Quarterly and annual discretionary performance sharing, annual sports grant, and relocation package.
• Mobile phone and usage package, conditional monthly transportation grant, and on-site doctor and services.