# Systems Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ NHL

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**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 creates entertainment, inspiring players and fans worldwide. EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We're looking for a Systems Software Engineer to join our team in Vancouver, British Columbia.

As a Systems Software Engineer, you will work with other engineers to integrate primary technologies and features in a massive codebase, merging modern and legacy designs across multiple hardware architectures. Your responsibilities will include:

- Improving memory, load times, and performance

- Debugging a range of defects in development environments

- Looking for ways to increase team efficiency through automation, tooling, or workflow enhancements

- Contributing to core EA technologies to promote collaborative development efforts

- Working with technical and non-technical co-workers to create practical designs that meet our players' expectations

- Mentoring other software engineering team members

To qualify, you will need:

- 5+ years of C++ development experience

- Experience testing, debugging, and extending other software engineer's code

- Knowledge of software engineering and architectural design

- Understanding of memory management, file systems, multi-core processing, and performance

- Experience with profiling tools to monitor and diagnose issues

- Experience with build systems, pipelines, and source control

- Experience with codebases supporting multiple compilers and architectures

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience

We offer comprehensive benefits packages, including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and social well-being support.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- software engineering
- architectural design
- memory management
- file systems
- multi-core processing
- performance
- profiling tools
- build systems
- pipelines
- source control

### Nice to have
- Python
- Lua
- C#
- assembly
- AI-assisted development tools

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