Machine Learning Engineer

Job Description

Empowering players to create is an exciting future for the gaming industry. At Electronic Arts we have many examples of players creating content, whether it be a skateboard park in Skate or fantastical mansions in the Sims 4. The future definitely has our players being more empowered to create with their imagination being the only limit.

To enable more players to become creators, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer that will shape the technology that powers creation. If you have experience with building services for user generated content through modern techniques connecting multiple services together we want to hear from you.

You will work with an experienced team that has collectively built and worked on games and backend services for more than two decades. You will work with multiple developers to bring the next game services to life.

We strive to stay relevant and innovate in our development approaches as well as with our services. Many of our software engineers are ''polyglots'' and strive in multiple environments.

Responsibilities
• Work in partnership with game teams to design shared services
• Develop, launch and maintain high-traffic services for multi-platform AAA titles
• Perform service load testing to identify and resolve bottlenecks
• Work closely with the engineering and DevOps teams on best practices
• Research and integrate new technologies
• Be accountable for the overall health, quality, maintainability and style of the server codebase

Qualifications
• A minimum of 6+ years of technology industry experience
• BS in Computer Science or other relevant experience
• Strong experience with client/server architecture
• Knowledge of HTTP and how to design and interact with RESTful web services
• Expert ability to analyze and interpret technical data
• Expert understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
• Significant development experience with either Kotlin, Java, Go, Node.js
• Experience with source code management (Perforce, Git)
• Effective with public Cloud providers (AWS, GCE, Azure)
• Understanding containers, orchestrators and service mesh technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Jaeger)
• Understanding of various database and their performance characteristics (SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience working with CI/CD technologies
• Passion to investigate and adopt new technologies and practices
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Skills
• Experience shipping AAA games
• Experience working with PlayStation and Xbox online systems
• Experience with and/or exposure to micro-services
• Experience with and/or with cloud native application development
• Knowledge of gRPC, Protocol buffers and FlatBuffers

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0meje-3-144-172-115-42 in your application.