Full Stack Software Engineer - Golang

Cloud innovations change the gaming industry landscape every day, adding new capabilities, allowing new scenarios, and redefining the category. Our mission is to provide a reliable, and easy way to develop and operate game servers. Within EA, the Game Server Hosting group builds the important game server infrastructure that underpins EA's current generation of multiplayer games and fuels development of the next wave. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the team driving our game server platform forward and help ship EA's next amazing multiplayer game.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, Game Server Hosting, your primary responsibility will be to influence the architecture and design of our containerized software and services infrastructure, then guide the delivery of those designs. Most of your time will be spent working with your teammates, planning and creating high-quality services and systems that power and support EA games and their dedicated game servers. You will also spend time working with product managers and team leaders to propose new features and solutions to support EA's Game Server Hosting service.

• Develop creative solutions that address customer requests, deliver new features and fix defects
• Collaborate with customers and product owners across teams and time zones to create designs that balance priorities and requirements and can be broken down into clear execution plans
• Develop well-tested code that follows peer-reviewed coding standards
• Guide the debugging of complex and hard to reproduce problems and contribute to post-mortems for unsuccessful releases
• Communicate, and enforce our quality processes, coding standards
• Enhance EA's engineering capabilities through tracking of industry, segment, and technology transformations

Qualifications

• 5+ years full stack commercial development experience
• Expertise with one or more web development frameworks - React, Angular, VueJS
• Expertise developing RESTful web services or gRPC services at Internet consumer scale
• 2+ years hands-on domain experience in cloud operational infrastructure and services
• Experience working on high traffic services and scalable systems, multi-threaded design with a complete understanding of an OO language
• Experience working within one or more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Firsthand use of scaling and technologies such as memcached, queuing
• First hand experience in all phases of a modern service development lifecycle, including requirement definition, architecture, technical development, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, product release, and live operation.
• Experience and experience mentoring other members of the team
• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, MS.

Bonus Experience Points:

• Proficiency with Golang
• Experience with Kubernetes as an orchestration system for large numbers of workloads (1000+ pods in multiple regions)
• Familiarity with game engines and game software development processes
• Engineering Collaboration software - JIRA, GitLab, GitHub, or Confluence
• Active contributor to related open source projects

We will also entertain applications from people who want to work remotely.