The team at Stormlight Workshop, LLC is always on the look out for skilled, passionate, and creative people to help bring the world of Flight Rising to life. Whether you're interested in art, engineering, community interaction, or customer support - there may be an exciting role for you here! These positions are available to all qualified applicants. Being a Flight Rising player is a bonus, not a requirement.

We are currently seeking applicants for the following roles:


Art & Design

Illustration Generalist - Contract / Freelance / Remote

We are currently seeking a flexible illustration generalist proficient in Adobe Photoshop to work on content for future Flight Rising updates. This position will be for freelance/contract remote work projects creating creatures, item icons, visual patterns on existing templates (genes for dragons), and apparel to fit on existing templates. Being able to tackle environments would be a bonus, but is not required. Artist should be capable of visually matching the existing Flight Rising style guide, have a knowledge of how to ink and cel shade.

Please send applications to artteam@stormlightworkshop.com. If you have submitted a portfolio to us previously for a different position, we encourage you to resubmit!








Engineering & Operations

Reliability Engineer - Contract / Remote

We're on a search to find a talented Reliability Engineer to join our creative and dedicated team. This individual would be at the forefront of ensuring seamless gameplay experiences for the thriving community of Flight Rising. The ideal candidate would be well-versed in full stack development (including PHP, Laravel, Node, Javascript, etc.), and feel at home with everything from rapid incident response to regular version updates for services across our production and development environments. They would be the beating heart of our operations, excelling at monitoring live site vitals and safeguarding the critical services that bring our world to life. If you feel like this describes you, and you have a passion for games, we're excited to talk to you!

Primary Responsibilities

• Service disruption incident response (critical and non-critical)
• Live site monitoring and regular reporting of site operation vitals and statistics
• Maintaining, performing, and testing version updates for ongoing critical services including, but not limited to:
  • Linux packages, including kernel updates
  • Linux distribution versions, in case of end of life
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Node & NPM packages
  • Elasticsearch
  • Other API integrations (e.g. Paypal, Braintree)
• Using, maintaining and improving scripts used to configure and manage production and testing environments
  • Ansible and Python experience a plus
• Ensuring stability of developer virtual machine environments across the engineering team:
  • Ensuring VMs are up-to-date
  • Addressing VM issues (such as with VirtualBox/Vagrant on Mac and Windows)
• Maintaining backup systems and checking regularly that they operate correctly

Tertiary Responsibilities

• Game features / tools quality engineering:
  • Pull request reviews
  • Detailed and thorough feature testing
  • Risk assessment
  • Regression testing
• Full stack development support, if necessary (PHP, Javascript, Laravel, MySQL)

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen over 21 years of age
• Must have a working computer desktop or laptop and a reliable internet connection
• Strong understanding of project management
• Experience in creating and maintaining a flexible schedule, including the ability to be on-call depending on the situation
• Experience with flexible / moving project schedules
• Exceptional verbal and and written communication skills
• Able to work well with others in a diverse and fast-moving environment
• Strong ownership and responsibility for workload
• Self-motivation and initiative

Pluses

• Strong web development background and familiarity with common programming languages and frameworks
• Game industry experience web or game-based systems administration, or bachelor's degree with an emphasis on similar duties
• Game engine familiarity (Godot, Unity, Unreal, etc.)

Community Management




Customer Support





How to Apply

If you would like to apply for a position, please include the name of the position you're applying for, send us a link to your resume, and/or portfolio (if applicable), and describe your work time availability.

For art positions: Please send applications to artteam@stormlightworkshop.com.

• Subject line should be “Artist Application - YOUR NAME HERE”
• Please include a link to your resume and/or portfolio.
• Please send from an e-mail address that we may use to contact you.
• Please note the position(s) you are applying for.

Engineering, Community Management, and Customer Service applications will only be accepted if sent through our Contact Us page with a subject line that pertains to the type of role you are applying for. For example:

• For engineering positions, the subject should be Engineer Application
• For community management positions, the subject should be Community Application
• For customer support positions, the subject should be Customer Support Application

NOTE: Our team hires for positions on an as-needed basis, meaning that once positions are filled they will be removed from this page. However, we always keep resumes and portfolios on file, even if we aren't actively searching for applicants. Please feel free to send your cover letter, resume, and/or portfolio via our Contact Us page. Use the subject "Employment Application" so we can better find and categorize your submission.