# Software Engineer III - Infrastructure & Cloud

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Software-Engineer-III-Infrastructure-Cloud/213115
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_dfeaa53a-3b3

## Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The Live Data Platform & Infrastructure (LDPI) team builds and operates the foundational systems that support EA's live games and services. These systems run at a global scale and allow teams across EA to improve live experiences for millions of players.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop critical infrastructure and platform services that power EA's live-service data ecosystem. You will partner with other engineering teams to ensure the platform evolves safely while continuing to meet the demands of live operations.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build and operate large-scale, always-on infrastructure supporting live data across EA's global game portfolio.

- Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems, partnering with others for scaling and redundancy.

- Translate operational and technical requirements into system designs, balancing immediate delivery with long-term platform health.

- Develop automation, tools, and workflows that minimise manual effort and ensure safe, repeatable changes.

- Document technical designs, architectural decisions, and operational procedures to support knowledge sharing and reliable operations.

**Qualifications:**

- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with production ownership.

- Expertise designing and operating distributed/cloud systems.

- Proficiency in Java.

- Experience with containerized/service-based platforms and production workloads.

- Experienced with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), including EKS, EC2, S3.

- Experience in CI/CD and infrastructure automation.

**Bonus:**

- Infrastructure experience for live-service or real-time workloads.

- Work with data-intensive or high-throughput systems.

- Applied AI-assisted or LLM-based engineering workflows.

- Experience with data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, Spark).

This is a hybrid remote / in-office role, requiring some in-office presence in Vancouver.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- cloud platforms
- containerized/service-based platforms
- CI/CD
- infrastructure automation

### Nice to have
- data-intensive systems
- high-throughput systems
- AI-assisted engineering workflows
- data warehouses