The Battle.net & Online Products organization is home to 300+ superpowered engineers, program managers, and designers focused on the technology that powers Blizzard Entertainment’s games. Whether you’re playing one of our titles, chatting with friends, or just shopping online, B&OP ensures that our players are immersed in engaging, exciting, and secure experiences.

Blizzard Entertainment has an opening for a talented and enthusiastic Senior Software Server Engineer to join our Battle.net Game Services Group

The Game Services Group develops the software, services and infrastructure that keeps millions of players online simultaneously worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When a player logs in, sends a friend request, a whisper, or a chat within one of our rich virtual worlds, Game Services powers these capabilities. When you use voice chat, check your profile statistics, or create a new social group, we are the team that makes those things possible. From Overwatch to Hearthstone, StarCraft 2 to Diablo 3, World of Warcraft to Heroes, regardless of the game, time zone, or scale, Game Services is ready to answer the call with effectiveness and professionalism, acting as the central pillar to supercharge all player engagement.

Covid-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.

Responsibilities

Work with a small and talented team to develop scalable, highly performant platform services
Implement new features and services to support the needs of multiple teams
Coordinate with embedded and external teams, create relationships and assist with shared initiatives
Participate in the ongoing effort to improve our platform infrastructure, with the goal of achieving ever increasing service availability
Perform research to acquire new knowledge necessary to perform assigned tasks and maintain a process of technological evolution
Develop unit and integration test code to validate service reliability
Mentor and educate more junior engineers on the team

Requirements

A degree in computer science, or a related field
A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
Ability to work in a collaborative environment
Excellent communication skills
Advanced understanding of C++
Prior development work on distributed systems and client/server architectures
Strong data-structure, logic, and algorithm skills
Knowledge of network and server security issues
Experience with performance analysis and code optimization
Experience with protocol and API design
Database development experience (MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, etc.)
Self-motivated and able to break down complex tasks
A desire to help make the service the best that it can be for our players

Pluses

Proficient in at least one scripting language such as Python
Linux development experience (server applications, gdb debugging, etc.)
Experience with cloud/virtualization/containerization technologies and infrastructure
Enthusiastic about supporting a live service
Familiarity with Blizzard Entertainment games and features, at least at a casual player level