Software Engineer - Gameplay Services

Requisition Number: 174217

Position Title: Software Engineer II

External Description:

We Are EA

And we make games - How cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is not easy. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry.

 

The Challenge Ahead:

Our platform powers online features for EA’s game titles serving millions of users each day. We live, breathe, and dream about how we can make every player’s multiplayer experience memorable. We develop services and SDKs in collaboration with EA’s game studios for matchmaking, stats and leaderboards, achievements, game replays, VOIP, and game networking. We try to capture the most memorable portions of your experience, such as statistics to compare yourself to other players, achievements you earned during play, and even replays of your own games to share.

 

EA’s Digital Platform Gameplay Services team has a need for an Operations Engineer in EASK, Burnaby. You will support scalable, distributed server-side systems that provide functionality to our millions of customers and work on new improvements to keep our systems at top-notch performance and operationally ready. 

 

Responsibilities:

• Drive supportability of our developed services and SDKs
• Enhance and add features to existing systems
• Research and select new best-of-breed technologies to meet challenging requirements 
• Communicate with engineers from across the company to deliver the next generation of online features for both established and not-yet-released games
• Endeavor to optimize performance and scalability of server systems
• Be a part of the full product cycle for our products, from design and testing to deployment and supporting our LIVE environments and our game team customers
• Advocate for best practices within the engineering team 
• Work with product managers to improve new features to support EA’s business

 

Basic qualifications:

• Experience with Java
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes or Docker
• Experience with cloud computing products such as AWS EC2, ElastiCache, and ELB

 

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience with Envoy and/or Istio
• Experience with Service Mesh
• Experience with Terraform & Helm
• Experience with monitoring and performance analytic tools such as Prometheus or Graphite.
• Experience with languages like Python or Go
• Experience with Git
• Experience with scalable data storage, streaming and processing technologies such as Cassandra, Amazon S3, Apache Kafka, Storm and Spark.
• Experience with relational or NoSQL database
• Experience with high traffic services and highly scalable, distributed systems
• Experience with linux
• Experience working within the games industries
• Knowledge of Google gRPC and protobuf

 

What's In It For YOU? Glad You Asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, RRSP with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes outstanding people to make excellent games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture that is motivated by creativity and individuality. 

 

Where you will be located: EA Still Creek - Burnaby, BC

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

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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: 111

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

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