Software Engineer II - Gameplay Services

Job 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 challenging. 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 a Server Engineer in EASK, Burnaby. You will build 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.

Responsibilities:
• Design brand new services covering all aspects from storage to application logic to management console
• 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
• Endeavour 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:
• 3+ years hands-on C++ experience
• Experience with C# and .Net framework
• Experience with all phases of product development lifecycle, including requirement definition, development, test, and product release
• Enjoys solving problems
• Enjoy conveying thoughts to a diverse audience
• Experience with Jenkins or Gitlab CI/CD pipeline

Bonus qualifications:
• Experience with development on-prem software and automation frameworks
• Experience with relational or NoSQL database
• Experience using AWS services
• Experience with Docker and Redis
• Experience with stress testing plus performance tuning and optimization
• Experience working within the games industries
• Knowledge of Google gRPC and protobuf
• Experience with Scripting languages

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

Unleash Your Inner Genius - Apply Today!

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0xjjr-18-222-69-152-42 in your application.