Electronic Arts

We're looking for a Staff Engineer that can work across multiple groups and technologies focusing on the design and delivery of key strategic engineering goals for the Apex Legends franchise at Respawn Entertainment. This talented individual will apply their years of engineering and live service experience to design, document, and deliver tools, systems, and services while reporting to the Head of Online Services. If this sounds like you, we would love to meet you.

What you will do

• Work collaboratively as a technical liaison for the Head of Online Services on all projects

• Become a trusted and productive member of the senior engineering leadership team of Online Services.

• Write and review code across various domains and service tiers of critical importance to achieving the studio's strategic goals

• Design, review, build, deploy, and assist in the operations of technical services that our players rely upon daily

• Collaborate with engineers and staff from various departments demonstrating your competency, capabilities for key projects

• Principally or collaboratively write technical design documents, run books, standard operating procedures, and other forms of documentation that enrich our engineering culture

• Understand and demonstrate your knowledge of business critical production cloud architecture

Ideally, you will have

• 10 years of demonstrable software engineering experience

• Experience building and operating multi-tiered customer facing applications and services

• Experience with Technical Operations and 24x7 support

• Have worked with OKRs and KPIs and applied them as a measurement of strategic progress

• A deep understanding of process and practices that improve the player and developer experience through automation

• An excellent grasp of business English in both oral and written forms

• An excellent grasp of modern security concepts and their application in code and systems design

• Generate flowchart, sequence, and C4 diagrams

• A programming language polyglot that can objectively reason about when, where, and why to use specific languages, protocols, and patterns focused on quality and time to delivery

• Both understand and educate the architecture of business critical production cloud systems find and resolve issues quickly

• Experience with modern source code management systems (Perforce, Git, etc)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Other qualities we look for