Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We develop games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.

 We exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together experienced people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We celebrate diversity and inclusion and aim to create great experiences for our employees as often as our players. We're looking for people to come to the office or Zoom meeting excited to work and ready for some fun. The Data Science engineer will report to Sr Manager Engineering responsible for Data & Insights.

Join us in driving the next revolution in games.

The Server Engineer will report to the Senior Engineering Manager.

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.

* 2+ 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:

* 1+ 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, optimizing, and debugging scalable data systems

* Passion for making and playing games