# 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 is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to join the EA SPORTS NHL team in Vancouver, British Columbia. As a Systems Software Engineer, you will work on integrating primary technologies and features in a massive codebase, improving performance, utility, and capabilities, and contributing to core EA technologies.

Responsibilities:

- Integrate primary technologies and features in a massive codebase, merging modern and legacy designs across multiple hardware architectures.

- Improve memory, load times, and performance.

- Debug a range of defects in development environments.

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

- Contribute to core EA technologies to promote collaborative development efforts.

- Work with technical and non-technical co-workers to create practical designs that meet player expectations.

- Mentor other software engineering team members.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of C++ development experience.

- Experience with 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.

- Experience integrating and maintaining large-scale systems and legacy codebases, covering multiple disciplines.

- Experience with multiple programming languages (Python, Lua, C#).

- Previous experience shipping console products.

- Experience with assembly.

- Experience in utilizing AI-assisted development tools to rapid prototype, accelerate execution, and automate workflows.

## 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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