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And we make games – how cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is not easy. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

The Challenge Ahead

The commerce and identity team is part of EADP (EA digital platform) which is tasked to develop one of the largest eCommerce and Identity platforms to power hundreds of cross-platform games played by hundreds of millions of players. The distributed online platform is responsible for providing foundation services to games including identity management, authentication, authorization, account security, subscription, billing, payment, virtual currency, provisioning, entitlement, risk and fraud at 24x7 with 99.99% reliability. Open-source cutting-edge technologies are widely used such as docker, MySQL, MemCached, Redis, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Spark and etc. This is a unique opportunity to work on online space for a great game company. Looking forward to joining us to be a full-stack engineer.

What a DBA does at EA C&I team

The successful candidate for this position will serve as a Database Administrator and Storage Architect in the Commerce and Identity team. The candidate will be responsible for design, architect, implement and maintain highly performing, highly scalable, highly available and security data storage for identity and commerce services, including but not limited to MySQL/Cassandra/Redis/Hive/HDFS etc. Also, the candidate will be involved in the whole life cycle of these technologies including planning, development, maintenance and troubleshooting of live-site issues.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Architect DB storage to be highly scalable and available
  • Working with engineering leaders to set up process to safeguard integrity, performance and availability of the storage service
  • Design DB level solutions based on the requirements from feature teams
  • Setup/Monitor and maintain the 24*7 running of all DB instances.
  • Seamless patching and version upgrade of all DB instances.
  • Capacity planning for game launch seasons and big title launches.
  • Proactive tune parameters for all supporting DB instances to ensure max performance achieved
  • Write technical documents to ensure knowledge is well preserved
  • Control access permissions and privilege. Ensure all accesses are permitted and well logged for auditing purposes
  • Support team members to execute pre-permitted ad hoc DB queries for analysis purposes
  • Review DB schema changes from team members and provide professional feedback
  • Proactively analysis and troubleshoot any DB related live-site issues
  • 24*7 on call

Qualifications:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
  • Strong understanding of MySQL and related techniques.
  • Understanding of other storage layer techniques like Oracle/Cassandra/Redis is a plus
  • Familiar with one of the script languages like bash/python/perl/...
  • Familiar with C/C++/Java is a plus
  • Familiar with Linux
  • Passionate to be a DBA and eager to learn and improve
  • Ability to quickly learn complex systems and new technologies
  • Exceptional analytical and creative problem solving skills
  • Solid computer science background including Algorithm, Data Structure, Operation System, etc. strongly preferred

…and, in general, the potential to sweep us off our feet!

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

Don’t Just Play It – Create It!

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