Description
Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join their team, focusing on networking applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with Research Scientists and Engineers to shape how new technologies integrate into core engine architecture. You will translate ideas from exploration into systems that can operate at scale in a live environment.
The role involves building upon and extending the low-level networking layer of the engine, designing and implementing networking features to support multiplayer at scale, and partnering with engine developers to ensure gameplay features and systems have full multiplayer support.
Responsibilities:
- Build upon and extend the low-level networking layer of the engine.
- Design, implement, and instrument networking features to support multiplayer at scale.
- Partner with engine developers, ensuring gameplay features and systems have full multiplayer support.
- Define patterns and best practices for multiplayer-ready code.
- Contribute across engine domains, including tools, data pipelines, and runtime systems, to improve the capabilities of the engine.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience with AAA game engines.
- Experience with large C++ codebases.
- Experience implementing gameplay networking features.
- Proficiency across one or multiple engine development domains.
- Experience navigating unfamiliar areas of a large codebase and becoming productive quickly in tools, pipeline, or runtime systems.
- Experience collaborating with others to translate applied research goals into production-ready engine features.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools.
The role is hybrid, onsite three days a week, in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver, with a salary range of $141,400 - $204,400 CAD in British Columbia or $165,000 - $256,000 USD in California.
Benefits include paid time off, sick time, company holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) or retirement plans, depending on the location.