Web Tools Programmer
Naughty Dog · Santa Monica, CA · 1 wk ago
Engineering$141k–$177k/yrFull-time
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack web applications and integrations that enhance development workflows and connect with core studio tools and services
- Extend and customize Atlassian applications (Jira, Confluence) through plugins, REST APIs, and automation frameworks to meet studio-specific needs
- Work across distributed systems, investigating issues, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability of our internal tools ecosystem
- Design and maintain databases (relational, document, and cache stores) that support internal tools and analytics
- Collaborate with multiple departments to translate their workflows into maintainable, scalable, and systemic solutions
- Manage and prioritize multiple projects and their respective tasks independently while contributing to long-term architectural planning
Skills You Will Use
- Minimum of 3 years working in the video game industry
- Managing Jira administration, workflows, permissions, and automation
- Experience writing plugins, extensions, and integrations for Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence
- Ability to prototype and quickly iterate on front-end web tools leveraging modern web frameworks like Vue and Tailwind
- Advanced proficiency with server-side development across various interpreted languages (JavaScript/Typescript, Python, or PHP) and practical knowledge of REST API design
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, including performance optimization, fault tolerance, and observability
- Experience administering, optimizing, and migrating databases (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis) and understanding when it makes sense to use one over another
- Familiarity managing and developing both cloud and on-prem infrastructures leveraging containerization, infrastructure as code (Terraform/Ansible), and observability tools
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills necessary for working across our various departments and disciplines to improve their quality of life