Electronic Arts

The Server Engineer will report to the Technical Director.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and run a fast, scalable, highly available game service all the way from conception to delivery to live service operations

• Work with designers, client engineering, and production teams to achieve gameplay goals

• Implement security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating

• Create and run automated testing, readiness testing, and deployment plans

• Monitor the performance and costs of the server infrastructure to improve our game

• Design and implement data transformation layers using Java/Spring/AWS/Protobuf

• Collaborate with game server and web frontend teams to define API contracts

• Manage Release Ops / Live Ops of web services

Qualifications:

We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialogue to be considered.

• 6+ years development of scalable back-end services

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• Proficiency in Java or similar programming languages

• Experience with Cloud services like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with Database Design and usage of large datasets in both relational (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Couchbase, DynamoDB) environments

• Experience defining API contracts and collaborating with cross-functional teams

Bonus:

• 3+ years of experience developing games using cloud services like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or similar

• Experience with Protobuf for data transformation layers

• Proficient in technical planning, solution research, proposal, and implementation

• Background using metrics and analytics to determine the quality or priority

• Comfortable working across client and server codebases

• Familiar with profiling, optimising, and debugging scalable data systems

• Passion for making and playing games