Software Engineer - Game Server Hosting

Requisition Number: 176536

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 hard work. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry. Save the planet from Alien Invaders. Score the winning touchdown. Yup - It's the coolest job on the planet!

The Challenge Ahead:

Cloud innovations change the gaming industry landscape every day, adding new capabilities, enabling new scenarios, and redefining the category. Within EA, the Game Server Hosting organization builds the critical, cloud-native game server infrastructure and studio-facing tooling that underpins EA’s current generation of multiplayer games and fuels innovation of the next wave. We are looking for a highly motivated Game Engine/C++ Software Engineer to deliver reusable components and connectors between game servers, their engines, and our game server hosting ecosystem.  Your efforts will directly contribute to helping ship EA’s next amazing multiplayer games.

Responsibilities:

• You will work on reusable modules and integrations spanning multiple game engines.
• You will manage the game server process lifecycle and ensure successful startup, healthy runtime, and clean exit.
• You will ensure game server telemetry (logs, metrics) are collected and made available to game teams.
• You will provide mechanisms for game teams to send commands and debug running game server instances.
• You will work closely with game studio partners to facilitate integration of our components and products into their game code and seek repeatable solutions.
• You will collaborate with product and program management to ensure clarity and understanding of features and priorities.
• You will develop creative solutions that address customer requests, deliver new product features, and solve product defects.
• You will contribute to the successful launch of online games from some of the industry's top franchises.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years hands-on commercial software development experience
• Experience working in C++ codebases
• Exceptional analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Comfortable with large modular codebases
• Ability to utilize a wide range of debugging tools (logging, tracing, stepwise-debugging etc.)
• Education: Bachelors' degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Bonus Experience Points:

• Experience working with a commercial-grade game engine (Unreal Engine, Unity, Frostbite etc.)
• Comfortable utilizing Linux debugging tools (GDB, Valgrind etc.)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with the Go and C# programming languages

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Community / Marketing Title: Software Engineer - Game Server Hosting

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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Days Open: 26

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。