Software Engineer, Electronic Arts

• 5+ years of professional experience as one/more of a Software Engineer / SRE / DevOps engineer
• Experience collaborating across a team of engineers
• Grasp of Linux systems, networking, and security
• Public cloud experience with one of AWS / GCP / Azure
• Experience working with Databases
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and ready for more
• Relevant experience in backend / service development and operations, and familiarity with Game Client / Game Server development

Desirable

• Reporting to a Engineering Lead as a Software Engineer - Online Services you'll be responsible for:
• Maintenance, and support of backend services and infrastructure; these backend services power key features on APEX Legends including Matchmaking, Commerce, Authentication, Progression, and more
• Write code to support feature development on APEX Legends online features
• Our Software Engineers / SRE's are more generalists as opposed to specialists - meaning you'll move between different domains of technology in the game's online space as you grow your understanding of our technology ecosystem
• Hands-on development in multiple areas of technology in the game (mostly backend - PHP/Lua, occasionally client/server - C++)
• Author Technical Design Documentation (TDDs) to explain your vision of the architecture for new systems and features, expressing not only WHAT you're building, but WHY you're building it
• Collaborate with other engineers in the wider APEX team on feature discussions / requirements gathering, architecture and design reviews, code reviews, and similar
• Grow a depth of expertise of Respawn's game technology across Client, Server, and Backend
• Perform / support deployments, updates, and similar to/for services and infrastructure
• Support ad-hoc DevOps needs, and build automation systems to reduce manual toil
• Provide hands-on technical support during service affecting events