Senior Software Engineer- Generalist (Apex Legends)

Respawn Entertainment, an Electronic Arts studio, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Generalist to join the Apex Legends team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive the development of foundational technologies and work to improve the performance and stability of Apex Legends.

Responsibilities:

• Debug and resolve complex issues in large-scale codebases across various abstraction layers.
• Collaborate with other engineers to quantify game performance, prevent regressions, and improve launch stability.
• Design, own, and maintain gameplay and engine systems, focusing on performance and stability across consoles and dedicated servers.
• Analyze live telemetry and crash data to find defects, prioritize fixes, and guide improvements that directly impact the player experience.
• Build tools and automated content validation to keep artists, designers, and QA moving quickly and prevent bugs from reaching players.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development or equivalent game development experience.
• Experience working in large, shared codebases, in games or otherwise.
• Strong working knowledge of C/C++.
• Proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python.
• Experience with profiling, auditing, and optimizing software performance.
• Experience debugging and supporting software running in production.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience on a live service game or other continuously operated product, including feature flags, kill switches, and staged rollouts.
• Familiarity with embedded scripting languages and the boundary between engine code and game script.
• Experience with content or asset build pipelines and adding automated validation to them.
• Experience building developer-facing or content-creator tooling.
• Experience with backend or web services and cloud infrastructure.