We’re looking for a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer that can work across multiple groups and technologies focusing on the design and delivery of key strategic engineering goals for the Apex Legends franchise at Respawn Entertainment. This talented individual will apply their years of engineering and live service experience to design, document, and deliver tools, systems, and services while reporting to the Head of Online Services. If this sounds like you, we would love to meet you.
What you will do
Work collaboratively as a technical liaison for the Head of Online Services on all projects
Become a trusted and productive member of the senior engineering leadership team of Online Services.
Write and review code across various domains and service tiers of critical importance to achieving the studio's strategic goals
Design, review, build, deploy, and assist in the operations of technical services that our players rely upon daily
Collaborate with engineers and staff from various departments demonstrating your competency, capabilities, focus, and sense of ownership for key projects
Principally or collaboratively write technical design documents, run books, standard operating procedures, and other forms of documentation that enrich our engineering culture
Understand and demonstrate your knowledge of business critical production cloud architecture
Ideally, you will have
10 years of demonstrable software engineering experience
Experience building and operating multi-tiered customer facing applications and services
Experience with Technical Operations and 24x7 support
Have worked with OKRs and KPIs and applied them as a measurement of strategic progress
A deep understanding of process and practices that improve the player and developer experience through automation
An excellent grasp of business English in both oral and written forms
An excellent grasp of modern security concepts and their application in code and systems design
Ability to generate flowchart, sequence, and C4 diagrams
A programming language polyglot that can objectively reason about when, where, and why to use specific languages, protocols, and patterns focused on quality and time to delivery
Able to both understand and educate the architecture of business critical production cloud systems find and resolve issues quickly
Experience with modern source code management systems (Perforce, Git, etc)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Other qualities we look for
Experience with Security and Anti-Cheat tools and services
Experience with CDNs and content delivery networks
Passion for video games and the development process
Experience with JIRA or equivalent
Experience with two or more Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
Experience working with next gen game consoles
A champion of psychological safety
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the range and benefits for your specific location.
EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.
BASE SALARY RANGES
California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento): º $185,300 - $278,800 USD Annually
British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria): º $160,200 - $229,100 CAN Annually
Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. For British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. "
About Electronic Arts
Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.
We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
