Are you an ambitious Release Engineer up for steering how we deliver our software in the future?
Responsibilities
Release Engineer plays a key role in helping our game and backend teams to automate and optimize their build and release processes to enable us to deliver our applications faster. In practice, this means (at least) the following:
Stakeholder of the company client and backend build and release processes and required tooling
Working together with development, operations and quality assurance teams to define, create, optimize and maintain build and release pipelines, ensuring faster time to market
Implementing tools and scripts that allow efficient builds and releases
Identify and promoting best build and release practices and processes throughout our company
Requirements
Every role is eventually shaped to match our unique passions, backgrounds and strengths. Here are some of the key skills and experience you should already have when joining Metacore as a Release Engineer:
At least 3 years experience in release engineering, DevOps, software engineering or a similar role — especially related to mobile application release processes
Good understanding of CI/CD tooling, for example Jenkins, and pipeline development
Knowledge of working with container technologies and AWS, since all of our backend applications, as well as game servers, are run in containers on AWS
Practical know-how of at least one of the following: Bash, Python, C#
Team player with a can do attitude — qualities that will help you to thrive as part of the infrastructure team and in your collaboration with the game and backend teams
Top-notch problem-solving skills along with an automation first mentality
In addition to these, it would be nice but not mandatory for you to know these as well:
- Apple Developer, Google Play, Testflight, Appcenter
- Unity
- iOS development and xCode
- Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Fargate)
Not sure yet?
About Metacore
Our company is formed by great teams and individuals. Together, we work rather as Metacore than for Metacore – aiming for the same goal of entertaining our audience with world-class mobile games. As Metacore, we’re much more than the sum of our skills, experiences and knowledge.
Our Culture
Metacore is the game company where players are the closest thing to a boss. In other words, our teams and individuals enjoy a lot of freedom and responsibility in their work. Everyone can find the optimal way for reaching their goals – as long as it respects our company culture.
Relocation
Metacore office is located in Helsinki, Finland – one of the world’s most vivid game hubs, inhabited by the world’s happiest people. We welcome game industry talents from all walks of life, around the world, and do our best to help them settle here.
Careers
Everyone in our team approaches mobile games with pure excitement. We play them and talk about them, but because that’s not enough, we also develop them. Read more about whom we hire and what our recruiting process is like.