Electronic Arts

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. We aim to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of The Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it, a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is but strive to build a world as it could be.

A Developer Experience (DX) Engineer focuses on optimizing the experience of software developers within an organization. They improve the tools, processes, and environments developers use, aiming to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction. This role is crucial for fostering a positive and productive development environment, ultimately contributing to better software products and a more engaged development team. Success in this role requires deep coding expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and a keen understanding of developer needs.

You will report to a studio Development Director.

As a DX Engineer at Maxis, you will

• Ensure a high-quality developer experience by designing, implementing, and maintaining development tools and environments.

• Advocate for developer-centric solutions within the DevOps ecosystem.

• Work with pre-existing C# and Python codebases for various tools that bring automation into the game team’s workflows

• Collaborate with the development teams and use industry-standard CI/CD solutions to build pipelines that automate common operational tasks

• Apply software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations

• Work towards operational excellence by identifying opportunities to automate away manual processes.

• Partner with the development team and technical director to understand team requirements, evaluate options, develop roadmaps and ensure needs are addressed in a complex, multi-partner environment

• Provide critical support when changes are integrated across the game team's development branches

• Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve the team efficiency and platform capabilities

• Work with an internal Perforce team to implement best practices, support server upgrades, and optimize P4 usage

• Analyze incidents in a postmortem process to ensure preventative measures

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.

• 5+ years of experience as a Software engineer.

• Experience using Perforce or Git-based workflows for code management

• Experience with Python, C#, or C++

• Understand software configuration management and release management.

• Previous experience work with CI/CD frameworks (such as Jenkins) is a plus

• Experience working with ticketing systems such as JIRA.

• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation for internal and external use.

• Passion for automation and workflow efficiency.