Software Engineer

Requisition Number: 160217

Position Title: Software Engineer I

External Description:

Software Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Development and Release Engineering (DRE), are EA’s global Continuous Integration (CI) specialists.

We are a team of more than 100 staff based in fifteen EA studios around the world. We pride ourselves on working closely with our customers, who are the company’s game, engine, and content teams. DRE serves its customers through continuous integration, build automation, configuration management, and ensuring automation is running smoothly.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work as a technical liaison with development teams to address build issues and improvements

Implementation and validation of automated tests

Work with our internal customers on designing, prototyping and implementing new automated workflows

Monitor and analyze automation systems and proactively respond to breakages

Setup, monitor and analyze metrics to optimize automation systems

Manage virtual infrastructure, including deploying and monitoring VMs

Maintain the product backlog including tasks and their priorities

Provide regular status reports, and fully document details on updated processes and workflows

Design flexible solutions that work in multiple environments and require little to no maintenance

Act as primary contact  for development subteam

Guide and delegate work to junior engineers within dedicated subteam

 

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Degree in computer science or related field

3+ years of DevOps experience

Excellent verbal and written English

Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment

Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in complex systems (i.e. network, OS or hardware)

Strong ability to self-manage and prioritize work effectively within deadlines

Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles and solutions

Experience maintaining build automation in CI systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI)

Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Ansible, Puppet)

Experience with container orchestration and microservice management tools (e.g

Docker, Kubernetes)

Experience with object-oriented languages (e.g. C#, Java) and scripting languages (Groovy, Python, Powershell)

Experience with Java-based applications and JVM troubleshooting

Experience with source-control systems (e.g. Perforce, Git) and branching strategies (e.g. Gitflow)

Contribute to the architecture, design, development and operations of scalable services that are used by customers

Uses a multitude of debugging tool features and strategies to reproduce and find defects

Experience presenting topics to wide audiences

 

DESIRED:

Experience deploying and maintaining virtual environments (e.g. vsphere)

Experience with monitoring tools (e.g. ZABBIX)

Experience with secrets management tools (e.g. Hashicorp Vault)

Experience with artifact management tools (e.g. JFrog Artifactory)

Experience with operational intelligence tools (e.g. Elastic Stack, Splunk, Prometheus)

Experience with large-scale, high-availability, high-throughput automation systems

Experience working with gaming consoles

Experience with AWS or Google Cloud 

Active contributor to the Open Source community

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Community / Marketing Title: Software Engineer

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.

EEOText:

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: 107

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.