Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Location: Reykjavík, Iceland

Company

Fenris Creations is an independent video game developer creating persistent virtual worlds and online games, including EVE Online.

What you will do

• Design and build distributed systems that partition and rebalance simulation load across nodes.
• Maintain consistency during partial failures and design graceful degradation so node failures affect limited regions.
• Design low-latency messaging and RPC paths with millisecond-level latency budgets.
• Develop service boundaries, interfaces, replication strategies, caching, and data systems.
• Write, test, instrument, and deliver systems from design review through production, including load and failure testing.
• Collaborate with product owners and game designers to translate feature requirements into platform designs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with depth in distributed or concurrent systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one systems or backend language: Go, C++, Rust, Java, or Python.
• Experience with service and API boundaries, consistency and coordination models, replication, partitioning, and graceful degradation.
• Knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, queueing behaviour, CAP trade-offs, RPC, pub/sub, message queues, and event streaming.
• Experience scaling relational and nonrelational data stores, operating production services on AWS or Azure and Kubernetes, and using telemetry tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Applications must be submitted in English.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automated delivery using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Networking and systems fundamentals, including UNIX, TCP/IP, load balancing, and CDNs.

Culture & Benefits

• Multicultural work environment focused on collaboration, growth, creativity, innovation, and employee well-being.
• Flexible work environment with a double workstation setup.
• Regular team events, an on-site canteen, and on-site services including a doctor.
• Discretionary quarterly and annual performance-sharing plan and annual sports grant.
• Mobile phone and usage package, home internet, and a conditional monthly transportation grant.
• Relocation package.

Hiring process

• Submit an application in English.