Software Engineer II - Big Data

Requisition Number: 177450

Position Title: Software Engineer II

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Software Engineer II - Big Data

Location: Vancouver

Production Infrastructure & Engineering (PI&E) organization provides the essential platforms and infrastructure hosting solutions that power EA's live services. Our charter is to make EA's games and services available to all players anytime and anywhere. To do this, we focus on the high availability of infrastructure, primary services, and studio services. We aim to help developers to experiment and build new games quickly with infrastructure services on-demand and workflows that promote rapid development in the cloud. In all of this, we focus on being there for players where and when they want to play.

What a Software Engineer - Big Data does on EA's PI&E team:

As a Software Engineer in big data, you will be responsible for the design and delivery of foundational data services, pipelines, and analytics systems that give visibility into our most important and critical systems - helping gamers to play at scale and having an impact across hundreds of games and millions of gamers. You will report to a Senior Development Manager of PI&E.

We have an amazing facility in Vancouver with a huge sports field and many amenities. However, you will have the ability to work from home and work with a team distributed in different regions.

• Collaborate with product, program and project management to ensure clarity and understanding of features and priorities.
• Expand designs into engineering execution plans and engineering tasks.
• Develop code meeting peer-reviewed coding standards and practices, using team-selected tools.
• Build and maintain pipelines and ingest operational data and metrics from across EA's infrastructure.
• Mapping existing data sources with physical and logical architectures need to provide service hosting details and infrastructure insights.
• Design, build, and maintain high-scale data lakes/warehouses.
• Work with, and contribute to, the open-source software community as it intersects with our work.

The next great EA Engineer also needs:

• 2+ years of professional experience as a software engineering team member.
• Experience using database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB or Cassandra
• Experience with OLAP data stores/data warehouses (Bigquery, Snowflake, or Redshift)
• Experience with workflow / ETL management platforms such as Airflow
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, and/or Go.
• Public cloud provider experience (AWS,GCP, etc.)
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent training.

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!

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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. 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: 39

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. 

 

We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. 

 

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.

 

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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.