Backend Software Engineer- Game Server Hosting

Requisition Number: 178863

Position Title: Software Engineer II

External Description:

EA's 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.

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. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will work across our portfolio of backend services and infrastructure to enhance our game server platform and help ship EA's next amazing multiplayer games.

You will report to the Lead Software Engineer.

 

Responsibilities:

• You will help design and implement new product features and improve existing functionality.
• You will integrate and contribute to the backend API layer of the game server platform.
• You will collaborate with Product, Program & Project Management to ensure clarity and understanding of features and priorities.
• You will work directly with divisional and game studio partners to understand priorities and requirements while contributing to releasing games to market.
• You will contribute to the successful launch of online games from some of the industry's top franchises.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years hands-on commercial software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience in Golang, Java, or Python.
• Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience building & orchestrating containers using Docker and Kubernetes.

Bonus:

• Experience with DevOps tools such as ArgoCD, Git Pipelines, or Helm.
• Experience in video game development.
• Experience with Engineering Collaboration software - JIRA, Git, Slack, Confluence.

US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):
º $114,200 - $166,200
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $99,900 - $166,200
• Jersey City, NJ:
º $131,600 - $168,400
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $99,900 - $141,800
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $99,900 - $168,400

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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Days Open: 62

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.