At EFG (ESL FACEIT Group) we create worlds beyond gameplay where players and fans become community. We pride ourselves in having a corporate social responsibility which is that "IT'S NOT GG, UNTIL IT'S GG FOR ALL". We are passionate about the culture we foster that ultimately helps to create and shape the world of esports, gaming tournaments, leagues, events and holistic ecosystems staged for our millions of players, fans and heroes.

About FACEIT

With more than 25 million users, FACEIT is the leading competitive gaming platform. We provide gamers the best experience possible by making sure we are always on top of our tech – and continue to deliver industry-leading features to our already awesome platform!

The Role

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is ready to take ownership and lead the execution of the platform vision at EFG. You'll be instrumental in designing and delivering critical systems, leveraging your deep experience in building APIs in Golang, mastering gRPC, integrating complex databases, and applying robust architectural patterns from concept right through to production deployment.

We need an engineer who is genuinely passionate about networking, capable of dissecting how global infrastructure functions and optimizing it for competitive gaming. This means tackling challenges like network acceleration, backbone topology, and peering strategies to ensure the lowest possible latency for our millions of players.

Your efforts will be split between two high-impact areas: elevating the performance and scalability of the FACEIT game servers and owning core contributions to the stability and feature set of the shared cloud platform that underpins all EFG operations.

Responsibilities

Develop software for the platform and game servers team, ensuring high quality, well tested, and performant code reaches production;
Design systems, architect solutions, and improve performance of the cloud platform and game servers offering at EFG;
This role is both software engineering and cloud management. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of cloud systems, patterns, and Terraform as well as commercial experience in Golang.

Requirements

Current commercial experience with Go/Golang on large scalable projects;
Ability to design distributed APIs and scheduled procedures;
Experience working within a large microservices environment;
Excellent knowledge of RESTful/gRPC or APIs and their development;
Good understanding of Async communication;
Proven experience working with various databases (both SQL and NoSQL);
Experience with Docker or Kubernetes at a production scale;
Production experience with a major cloud provider;
Experience with Terraform;
In-depth understanding of testing strategies and approaches (Unit testing, integration testing, e2e testing, smoke testing);
Previous experience working on large, complex applications, and commercial experience in distributed networking and in developing low latency networks;
Familiarity with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), such as Cloudflare, especially in the context of performance and security;
Strong understanding of Observability principles, including practical experience with metrics collectors, distributed tracing, and analyzing application performance using percentiles;
Experience defining and monitoring Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs);
Familiarity with incident management processes and on-call practices in a production environment;
Clear written communication for technical design documentation;
A passion for video games and esports is a plus.

Firmly rooted in our values, EFG is an affirmative action employer that celebrates being an equal opportunity workplace. Our unwavering commitment to fair employment extends to all individuals, regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, citizenship, marital status, gender identity, or Veteran status.