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BioWare Montreal is building a new server team and has a need for a Lead Server Engineer in Montreal. The Lead Server Engineer work with a team of engineers to build and maintain a set of services to be used by BioWare's AAA games for an exciting new set of online-enabled features. The Lead Server Engineer will participate in all steps of the process, from design to live.



Responsibilities:

- Launch and maintain high-traffic services for multi-platform AAA titles.

- Coordinate the effort of server development and operations engineers.

- Work with game teams to design features and systems to support them.

- Architect and build systems for high performance.

- Monitor, analyze and collect data about system performance.

- Identify bottlenecks and slow queries and optimize them.

- Work closely with the engineering team to establish best practices and streamline process.

- Research and integrate new technologies.

- Be accountable for the overall health, quality, maintainability and style of the server codebase.



Basic qualifications:

- BS in Computer Science or other relevant area.

- Experience launching a high-traffic public-facing services.

- Comprehensive knowledge of Unix/Linux environments.

- Significant experience with J2EE servers.

- Expert ability to analyze and interpret technical data.

- Expert understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization.

- Expert understanding of hardware architecture and configuration and the ability to diagnose hardware issues.

- Expert understanding of database performance characteristics and high-volume data handling processes and techniques.

- Expert understanding of MySQL with the ability to analyze, debug and tune queries.

- Significant Java development experience. Thorough C++ experience a big plus.

- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, networking, security, SSL, SSH.

- Any relevant personal projects.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.