# Principal Engineer

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Hyderabad
**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 next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. As a Principal Engineer, you will define and drive technical strategy across multiple teams or domains. You will operate at an organisational level, shaping architecture, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring that systems are scalable, reliable, and aligned with long-term business goals. You will also mentor senior engineers and leaders while elevating engineering excellence across the organisation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and long-term strategy for large, complex domains spanning multiple teams or systems.

- Lead the design of highly scalable, distributed systems that support critical business and player-facing capabilities.

- Partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to align technical strategy with organisational goals and priorities.

- Provide technical leadership across teams, ensuring consistency in architecture, standards, and best practices.

- Influence and guide major architectural decisions, including build vs. buy, platform strategy, and technology selection.

- Oversee the health, scalability, and reliability of systems at an organisational level, ensuring operational excellence.

- Drive cross-team initiatives to improve performance, cost efficiency, developer productivity, and system maintainability.

- Anticipate future technical challenges and proactively design solutions that scale with business growth.

- Establish and promote engineering standards, governance models, and development best practices across the organisation.

- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, fostering growth and building technical leadership capability.

- Act as a key technical advisor to leadership, contributing to strategic planning and investment decisions.

- Facilitate collaboration across distributed teams, resolving complex dependencies and aligning on shared solutions.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in system architecture and technical leadership roles.

- Deep expertise in designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems and platforms.

- Strong background in software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices.

- Experience leading technical strategy across multiple teams or complex domains.

- Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product, and business functions.

- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and modern distributed architectures.

- Strong understanding of data platforms, real-time streaming systems, or large-scale data processing ecosystems.

- Expertise in system reliability, scalability, performance optimisation, and cost management.

- Experience establishing engineering standards, governance, and development processes at scale.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud platforms
- modern distributed architectures
- data platforms
- real-time streaming systems
- large-scale data processing ecosystems
- system reliability
- scalability
- performance optimisation
- cost management

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