Electronic Arts

Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress at EA. We’re a world-class community of technologists, innovators, strategists, and orchestrators transforming interactive entertainment. Together, we power the platforms, AI-driven tools, live services, and infrastructure that ensure global scale, secure player experiences, and unlock bold new possibilities.

EA Security protects our players, employees, products, and platforms. We set security standards, support game and enterprise teams, assess risk across partners and systems, and ensure compliance with global requirements. Our work strengthens system integrity, supports fair play, and enables teams to build and operate securely at scale.

Electronic Arts | Vancouver, BC (Hybrid) or Remote (North America) May Be Possible

Reports to: Sr. Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering

Job Summary:

Join us at Electronic Arts, where we inspire the world to play and connect millions of players through innovative, high-quality games. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on our Security Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team, you will help build and operate the systems that protect EA's games and players. You will report to the Sr. Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering and work with us to ensure fair and safe gameplay across our global ecosystem. Together, we promote creativity, learning, and community while shaping the future of game security.

Responsibilities:

• You will architect, develop, test, deploy, and maintain highly available anti-cheat and security platforms supporting millions of players worldwide.
• You will implement monitoring and alerting to verify system functionality, performance, and costing, using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenSearch.
• You will lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems for real-time detection and enforcement systems, sharing on-call responsibilities with our engineering team.
• You will build automation to reduce operational toil, improve system resilience, and create operational documentation including runbooks and playbooks.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure, or Security Engineering, operating production systems at scale.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell, and hands-on experience with both Linux and Windows environments.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, AWS cloud infrastructure, and Terraform-based deployments for distributed systems.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.