Electronic Arts

This is a 12-Month Contract.

Frostbite is EA’s proprietary game engine that comes equipped with tons of tools and technologies designed to build incredible games. Our in-house engine offers the unique ability to adapt to each game while working hand-in-hand to prioritize what to build.  Our goal is to empower creators all over the world to bring their best ideas to life by creating an engine that amplifies innovation across every discipline. 

This position, with the title of Software Engineer, is in the Frostbite Live Service team and you will report to the Engineering Manager. Frostbite is the one engine for Electronic Arts, and through our unique development process, we aim to produce a functional, reliable, usable and high-end product for our game developers.

The Live Service team provides the infrastructure and services required by Frostbite's CI, validating hundreds of code changes every day. In our team, you will operate and scale a global farm with on-premise and cloud components. You will set up and troubleshoot build and test automation on multiple games and platforms, and even prototype hardware. You will develop monitoring to reduce manual intervention to a minimum. Working with Frostbite software, quality and release engineers, you will make efficient, reliable, secure development workflows possible. You will also share your solutions and best practices with DevOps engineers across EA.

Responsibilities

• You will Operate Frostbite's CI, working with team mates to keep the automation pipeline fast and reliable across branches and platforms.

• Manage and scale up the hardware, virtual infrastructure and services.

• Respond to breakages, diagnosing and fixing problems in complex systems.

• Report status and thoroughly document issues and solutions.

• Develop proactive monitoring and automation tools to minimize breakages

• Partner with Frostbite engineers to understand and fulfill their evolving requirements, e.g. ensuring quick feedback and accurate error messages.

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience working with customers in solving technical problems.

• Experience with scripting or debugging processes.

• Interest in hardware and multi-platform development.

• Ease to organize your work across competing demands.

• Can-do mentality, eager to try things out and take on new technologies.

• Collaboration with local and remote teams, sharing knowledge and responsibilities.

• As we're an international team who communicate in English, you'll need to be comfortable talking and writing about technical details in English.