# Senior Security Software Engineer

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Security Software Engineer to join their Developer Security team. As a Senior Security Software Engineer II, you will report to the Director, Developer Security and play a key role in shaping the platforms and systems that power how EA builds and operates software.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Owning and driving large, cross-cutting technical initiatives that span multiple teams, systems, and domains

- Defining and breaking down ambiguous problem spaces, and leading them through to practical, high-impact solutions

- Designing and evolving internal platforms and shared services that improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience

- Establishing and promoting engineering patterns and best practices in areas such as system design, observability, and service reliability

- Leading architectural decisions, making pragmatic trade-offs across performance, reliability, cost, and speed of delivery

- Contributing directly to critical parts of the system where deep technical expertise is required

- Improving how systems are operated in production, including monitoring, incident response, and long-term reliability improvements

- Influencing technical direction across teams through design reviews, collaboration, and hands-on leadership

- Mentoring engineers at multiple levels, particularly Senior engineers, helping to raise the overall technical bar

- Partnering with teams across EA to understand workflows and remove friction through better platform design and tooling

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- 10+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, with a strong understanding of production challenges and failure modes

- A track record of delivering complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or domains

- Strong software engineering fundamentals, with deep proficiency in at least one modern programming language and the ability to work across others

- Experience working across a broad, polyglot technology stack

- Proven ability to design or evolve platform-level systems, internal developer platforms, or shared infrastructure

- Solid understanding of SRE principles, including observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and system health

- Experience improving system reliability and developer productivity through automation, platform design, and intelligent tooling

- Experience designing systems and workflows that are highly automatable and extensible

- Experience with modern delivery practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code and automated pipelines

- Ability to navigate ambiguity, define problems, and drive solutions without needing detailed direction

- Strong communication and influencing skills, with experience aligning engineers and stakeholders across teams

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- software engineering
- system design
- observability
- service reliability
- SRE principles
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- automated pipelines

### Nice to have
- internal developer platforms
- self-service tooling
- large-scale CI/CD
- build systems
- high-availability
- live service environments
- security
- compliance

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