looking for a green field?  Meteor Entertainment is building a whole new world.  Meteor Entertainment is a Free-to-Play Game Publisher whose sole purpose is to help our development partners create the best gaming experiences possible. We believe in creating fun, engaging, and core player experiences across multiple platforms. We want to reduce the barriers to entry for all players.  This is why we are only focused on Free-to-Play gaming services. We see our services as relationships with our players that we nurture for the life of our games. Enabling our developers to build great games and engaged communities is our passion. Meteor’s purpose is to support the creative process of independent developers and bring best of breed gaming content to a global audience for free.
join us and grow your skills.

initially, you will be responsible for providing technical assistance to Meteor’s staff.  you will also perform operational tasks such as building and deploying desktop computers, servers and applications under project level supervision of senior administrators. these operational tasks will lead to a greater understanding of Windows, the Linux operating system and common Open Source applications.

you will also have an opportunity to complete tasks for larger projects and/or solely complete smaller projects. these will be completed while not performing your primary function of supporting staff services.  these larger projects will be opportunities to grow your skills on a highly scalable infrastructure for a hosted massively multi-player game.

we want you to have excellent troubleshooting skills and a desire to learn. acquiring new skills will be partially accomplished by mentoring from senior group members but will also require a large degree of independence.

Required Skills
· Strong organizational and communication skills
· Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
· Basic Ruby skills
· Familiarity with a Linux/UNIX operating system at a user level
· Familiarity with Windows 2008 Server
· Familiarity with Windows on the desktop
· Familiarity with network infrastructure
· Able to follow instructions
· Individual accountability
· Attention to detail
· Process oriented
· Strong work ethic

Required Background
· Two years of college or equivalent post-high school education or experience.

Desirable Background and Skills
· A degree or certificate in computer science or a related field.
· Previous experience in customer support, computer operations, system administration, or another related area.
· Motivated to advance in the profession.
· Basic Scripting experience

Responsibilities
· Perform routine tasks under the direct supervision of a more experienced administrator.
· Act as a front-line interface to users, accepting trouble reports and dispatching them to appropriate system administrators.

Compensation DOE 50-70k

This is a full-time, onsite position in downtown Seattle. If interested, please contact jobs@meteor-ent.com.

About Us:

Meteor Entertainment is a Free-to-Play Game Publisher whose sole purpose is to help our development partners create the best gaming experiences possible. We believe in creating fun, engaging, and core player experiences across multiple platforms. We want to reduce the barriers to entry for all players.  This is why we are only focused on Free-to-Play gaming services. We see our services as relationships with our players that we nurture for the life of our games. Enabling our developers to build great games and engaged communities is our passion. Meteor’s purpose is to support the creative process of independent developers and bring best of breed gaming content to a global audience for free.

About the Job:

• Meteor’s flagship product runs in the cloud. Technically we run in “the clouds”- using servers in multiple clouds based on their different offerings.
• We are looking for someone to take our green field and build infrastructure for the next generation.
• You’ve been itching for the opportunity “do server management infrastructure right” for a while and are fired up to absolutely go to town on this – building scaling and healing automation that factors in security, failover, and quality/analytic tools to track stuff like packet loss, performance, latency, and more. You know, the stuff you’d build if world class infrastructure was the priority –

Responsibilities:

• Take personal responsibility for the availability and reliability of our service.
• Author tools that reliably manage infrastructure. We’re looking for someone to write clean, re-usable code. Elegant OO code that’s simple. This *is not* simply a scripting/sysadmin job.
• Write maintainable code with extensive test coverage, working in a professional software engineering environment (with source control, dev/stage/prod release cycle) - cowboy coders need not apply.
• We’ll need you to do much of your work in ruby, but you’re free to select other platforms, languages open source components for different pieces of the project.
• Support our existing production systems while you improve them.
• Own our server image configurations, collaborating with core server engineers to optimize for task performance, reliability, failover and scale.

Requirements:

• You know exactly how awesome it would be to create what’s described above. You’ve been dreaming about the opportunity to work on something like this without the distraction of other stuff for years.
• A distributed systems foundation and a service-oriented mindset. You’re always thinking  “What happens if this fails?” when you build things.
• You’ve “carried the pager” before (ideally at both a startup and a large infrastructure provider) & have first-hand experience with what happens when infrastructure // tools fail.
• A minimum of 5 years of coding experience (school counts). More experience would be great. What matters is that you’ve shipped and maintained mission-critical tools and infrastructure that many other people depend on.
• You are a prolific coder who works well independently.

Bonus Points:

• You’ve written software tools to manage 1000+ servers.
• You are conversant in the pros and cons of different clouds: EC2, Rackspace, Voxel, Azure, etc.
• You’ve worked with projects or products that do infrastructure automation and private cloud (Rightscale, Opscode, OpenStack, Eucalyptus).
• You’ve made a contribution to a widely used open source project. Huge bonus points if you started or lead a project.
• You read up on and experiment with new technologies because it’s in your nature, not because it’s a job requirement.
• You don’t just learn how things work, you learn why.
• Formal training in computer science (bachelors, masters, whatever)

Perks include:

• Full benefits, including medical, dental and vision
• A strong belief in life/work balance
• Salary DOE 90-110k

This is a full-time, onsite position in downtown Seattle. If interested, please contact jobs@meteor-ent.com.