Staff DevOps Engineer, Pocket Worlds
+ Equity
Metaverse firm
Open for applications
Metaverse firm
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower creativity and connection in a digital world.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer with extensive background and experience with DevOps (AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB).
- The ideal candidate should be comfortable in a high-energy, high-passion, and fast-moving environment
- In addition, the right candidate should be comfortable with feature development in Python and GO, and will have many opportunities to work on backend features that directly impact our millions of users
- The ideal candidate values a lot of control over their career and is genuinely excited to see a virtual universe be brought to life through their work
- You have at least 8 years of experience in backend development and infrastructure management, with at least 3 of those in a senior+ role
- You have extensive experience managing infrastructure at scale, with proven success at delivering stability and performance
- You have experience with direct ownership of service orchestration with direct involvement in the documentation, support, deployment, observability and CI/CD pipelining
- You are an expert with owning and operating Kubernetes, preferably in AWS
- You have experience with and are comfortable working in a high-velocity startup environment
- You have experience supporting mission-critical applications at scale
- You have experience programming Python
- You love what you do. Your work is your passion and you value working with people who feel the same
- You are comfortable taking control of large systems with minimal documentation
Desirable
- You have experience programming in GO, C# or Lua
- You have experience with the Unity Gaming Engine
- You have experience orchestrating stateful application such as game servers
- You have built any side projects or games outside of work or made significant open-source contributions
- You are a starter who loves to experiment and learn new things
- You’re highly energetic and feel comfortable leading and pushing your team to succeed
What the job involves
- This role will support our backend team and take ownership of our entire DevOps stack, which currently supports 300k DAU and is poised to grow significantly higher
- This role will drive our current and future development as we add support for user-crafted experiences and expand our architecture to embrace UGC
- We are a true startup with a team that wears many hats, and this role is no exception
- The success of this role will be measured by the impact you deliver to our team, product, and world
- Expand our infrastructure to support global growth
- Enhance our cloud native tools and practices to improve our systems with regard to business continuity and security
- ML-driven recommendations and search engines
- Game server hosting for UGC (User Generated Content)
- AI-powered content generation
Our take
Pocket Worlds was founded in 2013 with the vision of creating an app that would bring people together. As the parent company of Highrise and Everkskies, Pocket Worlds designs and builds metaverse communities.
Its first product, Highrise, offers a virtual world where people make avatars and create deep relationships, and has now amassed over 10 million users. In 2021, it acquired Everskies, the leading pixel doll community, which serves to bring like-minded people together. The company is growing rapidly, seeing 6x growth in its 2020-2021 year, as people became hungrier for meaningful connections during the pandemic.
Regarding Highrise, there are plans to introduce its native currency, the Highrise World Token, as well as the Highrise Marketplace and Highrise Assets, enabling users to make their own NFTs that can be traded between avatars.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$7m
EARLY VC
Oct 2018
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $10m
Company benefits
- Work anytime: This isn’t your typical 9-5 — they give you full permission to hop online whenever works for you
- Work anywhere: They have a team that spans the globe, so you have the ability to work from wherever speaks to you
- Training and Education Budget: Keep building your skillset with an annual reimbursement of up to $1,000 for programs, certifications, and learning materials
- Team Building Budget: Get to know your teammates with a monthly event and activity stipend of $25 per person
- Fitness Allowance: Stay active with a $50 monthly reimbursement for your gym membership, yoga studio membership, or whatever gets you moving
- Coworking Space Stipend: Choose a coworking space in your city that works for you and we’ll foot the bill
- Family Leave: Receive up to 2 months 100% paid time off during your first year of parenthood (after 6 months of employment)
- Annual Retreat: Join all fulltime employees on a unique jettsetting adventure every 9-12 months to brainstorm and meet face-to-face
Company values
- Dream big, then make it real - Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We are doing the best work of our lives. We are presented with an amazing opportunity and it is up to us to build something truly amazing. We set ourselves goals we know we can’t reach yet because we know that by stretching to meet them, we can get further than we expected.
- Be an owner, make a difference - Each person is important; each has the opportunity and the obligation to make a difference. We seek out ways to solve the most important problems. Every person can come up with the next great idea that will change our company's destiny, and we're responsible for each other to push to succeed.
- Fast is better than slow - Moving fast allows us to build more things and learn faster. We're less afraid of making mistakes than we are of losing opportunities by moving slowly. We are a culture of builders, and we have the power to ship fast. We don’t think of speed as a trade-off with quality. Speed forces us to think and do things differently.
- Keep it scrappy - Constraints on resources is a growth opportunity and not a debilitating challenge. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size, or fixed expense. We spent the first 4 years of our company self-funded while building Highrise, and that bootstrap culture lives on in every aspect of our work.
- Always Be Learning - Feedback is how we learn, grow, and ultimately build 10x better products this year than we did last year. We have the courage to give radically honest feedback, and we have the confidence to accept feedback without ego. We believe that feedback is a gift.
- Build with humility - We put our collective success before individual achievements. We prioritize requests and questions from our teammates over our individual work, and we celebrate successes as a team.
Company HQ
Galindo, Austin, TX
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Leadership
Anton Bernstein
(CEO)Previously co-founded Luxury Escapes and Lookingo, serving here as CEO. Served as CEO for Smartbox and sat on the Investment Team for Redpoint Ventures and Insight Venture Partners.
Gordon Su
(Board Member)Founded and acts as CEO for NEXT Music. Previously founded and acted as CEO fro WRKSHP and PennyPop. Served as a Portfolio Manager for Farallon Capital Management and as a Summer Associate for KKR & Co, Inc.
Jimmy Xu
(CTO)Previously served as a Design Engineer for Apple. Experience as a Research Assistant at the University of Washington.
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