Senior Software Developer - Networking

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join their team, focusing on networking applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with Research Scientists and Engineers to shape how new technologies integrate into core engine architecture. You will translate ideas from exploration into systems that can operate at scale in a live environment.

The role involves designing, implementing, and instrumenting networking features to support multiplayer at scale. You will partner with engine developers to ensure gameplay features and systems have full multiplayer support, define patterns and best practices for multiplayer-ready code, and contribute across engine domains to improve the engine's capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Build upon and extend the low-level networking layer of the engine.
• Design, implement, and instrument networking features to support multiplayer at scale.
• Partner with engine developers to ensure gameplay features and systems have full multiplayer support.
• Define patterns and best practices for multiplayer-ready code.
• Contribute across engine domains, including tools, data pipelines, and runtime systems, to improve the engine's capabilities.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience with AAA game engines.
• Experience with large C++ codebases.
• Experience implementing gameplay networking features.
• Proficiency across one or multiple engine development domains.
• Experience navigating unfamiliar areas of a large codebase and becoming productive quickly in tools, pipeline, or runtime systems.
• Experience collaborating with others to translate applied research goals into production-ready engine features.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools.

Benefits and Compensation: The company offers a package of benefits, including paid time off, sick time, company holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) or retirement plans, depending on the location. The pay ranges for this role are:

• British Columbia: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
• California: $143,800 - $217,200 USD