Development Support Engineer, RIAK

We’re one of the world’s leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 10,000 people and serve over 120 million customers in 26 languages. 

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of growth opportunities, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our global worldwide.

Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, featuring more than 1.38 million In-Play sporting events a year. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe (750,000), we handle over 6 million HTTP requests daily and process more than 1.5 million bets per hour at peak.

As a Development Support Engineer, you will be essential to the successful operation and maintenance of our RIAK platform, ensuring optimal performance and reliability for our business-critical systems.

The RIAK team maintains the performance and availability of global-scale, business-critical production systems. This group leverages industry best practices and bespoke services to administer and operate production platforms, ensuring high standards of service for distributed systems.

This role involves collaborating with a group of delivery-focused experts to maintain the open-source RIAK datastore. You will tackle complex technical challenges, ensuring our infrastructure remains robust and reliable as we scale.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the company’s hybrid work from home policy.

• Demonstrable experience with Linux and Unix, including Bash, AWK, SED and grep.
• Knowledge and experience of GNU utilities.
• Ability to make and act on decisions under pressure.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Detailed understanding of networking, including host and preferably media layers.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Manage system changes.
• Forecast production demand and capacity planning.
• Respond to and managing emergencies and incidents.
• Monitor and tune performance.
• Identify and implement automation to limit repeated steps.
• Analyse impact of changes.

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