CCP Games
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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Reykjavík, Iceland
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Required skills
Systems DesignSoftware DevelopmentAPI DesignAzure Cloud ServicesKubernetesTelemetryInternetworkingC++ (Programming Language)Java (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)
Job description
We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our team in Reykjavík. In this role, you will design and build the distributed systems that run our AAA rated MMO, EVE Online: one persistent world, no instancing, tens of thousands of players sharing the same simulation. You possess a solid grasp of distributed systems, together with a genuine feel for reasoning about consistency, latency, and failure at scale.
- Department
- Software Engineering
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Reykjavík
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Mei Walker
Your Tasks
- System Design: Design and build the distributed systems that partition and rebalance simulation load across nodes.
- Consistency and Failure: Keep state consistent under partial failure, and shape the failure semantics so a bad node degrades one region instead of taking down a fight.
- Performance: Design messaging and RPC paths where latency budgets are measured in milliseconds.
- Services and Data: Work on service decomposition, service interfaces, data replication, and caching strategies.
- Implementation and Delivery: Write code, take a design from design review through to production, and manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Measurement and Iteration: Instrument your work, load test it, and use that evidence to shape the next iteration.
- Collaboration: Work with product owners and game designers to understand what a feature demands of the platform, then design systems that meet those demands within real constraints.
Your Profile
- 5+ years in professional software development, with real depth in distributed or concurrent systems.
- Strong in at least one systems or backend language (Go, C++, Rust, Java, or Python), and the judgment to reach for a different one when the problem calls for it.
- A track record designing distributed systems: service and API boundaries, consistency and coordination models, replication, partitioning, and graceful degradation when a node fails.
- Solid fundamentals: complexity analysis, concurrency and synchronization, queueing behaviour, and a real feel for the CAP and latency tradeoffs you're making.
- Comfortable with distributed communication patterns and the tools behind them: RPC, pub/sub, message queues, event streaming.
- Experience with data stores and how they scale, relational and nonrelational, plus the caching and replication strategies built on top.
- You run what you build: operating services in production on cloud (AWS or Azure) and on Kubernetes.
- You use telemetry to reason about live behaviour (tracing, metrics, structured logging with tools like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Prometheus) and you load and failure test a design rather than assume it holds.
Nice to have
- A bachelor's in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field. Equivalent practical experience is just as welcome.
- Infrastructure as code and automated delivery (Terraform, Packer, Ansible, or similar) as the way your systems ship and change safely.
- Networking and systems fundamentals (UNIX, TCP/IP, load balancing, CDNs) good enough to debug your own systems down to the wire.
What We Can Offer You
- The challenge of working on ambitious projects with amazingly smart and creative co-workers.
- A multicultural work environment that encourages growth, creativity and innovation.
- Double work station setup and flexible work environment.
- An active fun division that hosts regular events.
- An excellent canteen that offers a weekly breakfast and lunch menu as well as drinks and snacks.
- Discretionary quarterly and annual performance sharing plan.
- Annual sports grant.
- A mobile phone as well as a mobile usage package.
- Home internet.
- A conditional monthly transportation grant.
- Work environment that focuses on employee well-being.
- On-site doctor, free of charge as well as other on-site services at a discounted price.
- Relocation Package.
Please submit your application in English.
About Fenris Creations
Fenris Creations is an independent video game developer headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland, with studios in London and Shanghai. Founded in 1997, the studio is renowned for creating deep, player-driven virtual worlds that connect communities across the globe.
Fenris Creations rose to international acclaim with the launch of EVE Online in 2003, a groundbreaking MMORPG that redefined emergent gameplay and player-driven storytelling. Since then, the company has continued to push boundaries through ambitious game development, technological innovation and immersive online experiences.
At Fenris Creations, we believe great virtual worlds are built through collaboration, curiosity, and courage. We create an environment where respect, open dialogue, and creativity thrive, empowering both our teams and our players to shape meaningful experiences together.
Now independently owned once again as of May 2026, Fenris Creations continues its mission to pioneer the future of virtual worlds and online games.
Our name draws inspiration from Norse mythology and honors the studio’s very first published game concept, Hættuspilið (“Danger Game”), created in 1997.
Join us in building worlds more meaningful than real life.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Screening Call
Stage 2:
Hiring Manager Interview
Stage 3:
Assessments
Stage 4:
Technical Interview
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