Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – SPEAR

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

About the Role

Electronic Arts is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Security Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team (SPEAR).

SPEAR builds and operates the systems that protect EA’s games and players. This includes the Javelin anti-cheat platform, security infrastructure, and real-time detection systems operating at global scale.

As a Senior SRE, you will design and operate reliable, scalable, and secure systems that support millions of players, while helping ensure fair and safe gameplay across EA titles.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, test, deploy, and maintain highly available anti-cheat and security platforms for games played by millions of global players

• Implement monitoring and alerting to verify functionality, performance, and costing

• Ensure reliability and performance of real-time detection and enforcement systems

• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems

• Build automation to reduce operational toil and improve system resilience

• Create and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational documentation

• Support a great player experience by participating in live service support and incident response 

• Share on-call responsibilities with other engineers, and support critical releases after normal business hours when needed

• Collaborate with world-class engineers across platform, game, and security teams

• Utilize security best practices and original techniques to keep player data secure, prevent cheating, and promote fair play 

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure, or Security Engineering

• Strong scripting skills (Python, bash, PowerShell, or similar)

• Experience running production systems at scale

• Hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting both Linux and Windows

• Deep experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

• Strong experience with Terraform-based infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch for logging, observability, or analytics at scale

• Background in high-scale distributed systems or real-time data pipelines

• Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response

• Familiarity with identity systems (OIDC) and secrets management (Vault)

Nice To Have

• Infrastructure & Platform

  • Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Helm

  • Operate Kubernetes platforms on EKS

  • Work with core AWS services including S3, SQS, IAM, and Route53

  • Work with distributed data systems such as Redis or Valkey for caching and high-throughput workloads

  • Use tools like kubectl and Lens for cluster operations

• Security & Reliability

  • Design secure systems using OIDC-based identity and IAM best practices

  • Manage secrets with HashiCorp Vault

  • Support certificate lifecycle and cryptographic assets using Venafi

• Observability

  • Build and maintain observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, ELK, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry

• CI/CD

  • GitLab pipelines

• Experience

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field 

  • Experience with anti-cheat, security, fraud detection, or abuse prevention systems

  • Experience in gaming or player-facing platforms

  • Coding and debugging experience in Rust

Why Join EA SPEAR

• Work on systems that directly protect millions of players

• Help shape the future of anti-cheat and game security at scale

• Build highly impactful systems used across EA’s global ecosystem