Build Software Engineer – Maxis

Requisition Number: 157942

Position Title: Software Engineer I

External Description:

Build Engineer – Maxis

We are looking for a Build Engineer to join the Maxis release team at EA’s Redwood City campus.

We pride ourselves on providing superior build, release, and archive management for the Maxis games studio. Our services include Build & Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Metrics Reporting, and Virtual Infrastructure Management.

The Build Engineer will be an essential technical contributor to the development and release of Maxis games including The Sims 4 and unannounced projects.

You will report to the Development Director for Central Online/Web Tech.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will implement and maintain automation pipelines in our Continuous Integration system
• You will work with our Technical Directors and Engineering Leads on designing, prototyping and implementing new automated workflows
• You will be an essential contributor working with studio Technical Directors and Engineers to produce builds for developers, testing, and final release

Other Responsibilities

• Maintain dashboards that visualize key systems metrics
• Manage virtual and physical infrastructure, including deploying and monitoring VMs/Containers
• Maintain the product backlog including tasks and their priorities
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues as they arise
• Create, improve and maintain workflow tools

Desired Skills:

• Experience administrating, creating and maintaining automation jobs in CI systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI and Perforce.
• Experience with at least one OO language (e.g. C#, C++, Java)
• Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Powershell, bash, Ruby)
• Experience with source-control tools (e.g. Perforce, Git)
• Comfortable collaborating as a team and individually
• Experience running small meetings involving our team and internal customers 
• S. Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Preferred Experience...

• Deploy and maintain virtual environment (e.g. Virtual Machines, Containers)
• Infrastructure automation tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
• Monitoring tools (e.g. ZABBIX, DataDog)
• Secrets management tools (e.g. Hashicorp Vault)
• Artifact management tools (e.g. JFrog Artifactory)
• Container orchestration and microservice management tools (e.g Kubernetes)
• Contribute to an active LiveOperations development team

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 150

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.