Description
Electronic Arts is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Developer to join their team. As a Lead Infrastructure Developer, you will own the GPU fleet that researchers train on, including capacity, scheduling, diagnostics, and support. You will set technical direction for GPU operations and infrastructure architecture. Additionally, you will lead Infrastructure as Code setup, granting permissions, and debugging infrastructure problems.
The role involves working three days a week in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver, and reporting to the Head of Data and Infrastructure. Responsibilities include:
- Owning GPU fleet operations across the AWS estate
- Building the scheduling layer from scratch
- Diagnosing GPU and node failures quickly and driving hardware evidence and replacement through AWS support and capacity-block channels
- Running researcher support as a first-class product, including holding office hours, owning the support channel, and driving recurring causes out of existence with self-service tooling, preflight checks, and documentation
- Instrumenting the fleet with utilisation, queue depth, job success rate, and cost per experiment metrics
- Partnering with external compute and lab partnerships as a technical contact, and with EA's central infrastructure groups on shared services and escalation
- Authoring runbooks, decision records, and onboarding documents
The ideal candidate will have:
- 8+ years of experience operating production infrastructure, with deep, current, hands-on AWS experience , EC2 GPU fleets, EKS, IAM and cross-account security, VPC and networking, S3 and FSx
- Experience scheduling, diagnosing, and managing GPUs in AWS specifically
- Experience operating GPU fleets at 1000+ GPU scale
- Expertise in scripting and automation with Python, PowerShell, bash, or equivalent
- Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent)
- Familiarity with a GPU scheduling or orchestration layer (like Slurm, Kubernetes with Kueue or Volcano, Ray, dStack or SkyPilot)
- Observability practice including Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent
In terms of compensation and benefits, EA offers:
- Salary ranges: $169,500 - $242,600 CAD (British Columbia), $193,100 - $296,500 USD (California)
- Benefits package including paid time off, sick time, company holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) or retirement plan