Gameplay Engineer (Apex Legends)

Electronic Arts is seeking an experienced Gameplay Engineer to help build and support high-quality player-facing gameplay features for a live-service multiplayer game, Apex Legends.

The successful candidate will partner closely with designers and cross-disciplinary teams to prototype, implement, iterate, and polish features that contribute to compelling moment-to-moment gameplay and broader game experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with designers to develop, prototype, iterate, and polish gameplay features that support the overall creative vision of the game.
• Implement and maintain gameplay systems with a focus on reliability, performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Support core gameplay development across multiple gameplay areas, including player-facing systems, weapons, abilities, and mode-specific features.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver features that integrate cleanly into the broader game experience.
• Work with engineers, designers, artists, animators, QA, and production to deliver high-quality features on schedule while managing technical risk.
• Investigate and resolve bugs, regressions, edge cases, and gameplay issues across a large, complex codebase.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and ongoing improvements to engineering standards, workflows, and shared gameplay technology.
• Ensure new gameplay features are robust, scalable, performant, and suitable for a live multiplayer environment.
• Provide guidance to other engineers through technical feedback, implementation support, and clear communication of tradeoffs.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in software development engineering on gameplay teams.
• Experience shipping multiplayer video game titles.
• Experience working on Live Service video game titles.
• Experience working with a large codebase, managing and improving performance and budget.
• Advanced C++/C skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.

Compensation and Benefits:

• The salary ranges for this role are $143,800 - $217,200 USD in California and $122,300 - $170,700 CAD in British Columbia.
• Benefits include paid time off, sick time, company holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) or retirement plan.