Job Description

Magnopus is a content-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 across the physical and digital worlds in ways people haven't experienced yet.

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 teamwork 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.

Job Description

You will be responsible for assisting in the management of the infrastructure for building consistent development, test, and build environments. You will set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for current and future projects; with artifacts and metrics passing back into the feedback loop for monitoring and alerting.

You will work as part of a highly talented team of software developers, to ensure builds are stable and of the highest quality possible. The role requires strong communication skills, and knowledge of the game development environment.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining infrastructure for continuous integration, automated testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Working with software developers and QA to create stable builds for VR/AR experiences, internal tools, and backend services across multiple environments.
• Writing and maintaining technical and user documentation.

Requirements:

Baseline

• 7+ years of configuration management and engineering for video games, ideally supporting an Agile development process
• Able to read and write scripts in PowerShell, Python, Gradle or equivalent
• Experience with DevOps practices and toolchains with infrastructure as code
• Experience with automation/configuration management
• Adept at managing software release and deployment
• Proficient in supporting application development on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux)

Skills

• Experience with automated build systems (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, or equivalent)
• Experience with Perforce and Git
• Experience with bug-tracking software (e.g. Jira, YouTrack, or equivalent)
• Knowledge of Agile software development process (particularly Scrum)
• Passion for games and a desire to remain up to date with the latest technologies
• Excellent communication skills

Bonus Points

• Programming experience with C# in Unity and/or C++ in Unreal
• Past experience working with VR/AR content and understanding what makes these mysterious worlds so enticing
• Honest and heartfelt desire to make the world a genuinely better place

Though we've delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:

• Mission:ISS
• Disney Pixar Coco VR
• Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
• The Lion King - Virtual Production
• Elixir

Benefits:

Magnopus employees enjoy a competitive benefits package as well as some amazing perks:

• Meaningful, purpose-driven work
• Great teammates
• 100% employer paid premiums on health, dental, and vision Insurance
• Generous vacation & paid time off
• 401(k)
• Flexible Remote working plans (particularly during Covid events)
• Top of the line tech and tools
• Comfy office chairs and stand-up desks
• Free gym membership (located in our building)
• Transportation assistance
• Magnocademy (our peer learning program)
• Lunch clubs (including D&D, board games, and knitting)
• On-site happy hours
• Weekly breakfasts
• Range of complimentary snacks and drinks