Software Engineer II

Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Role ID

212007

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

EA Studios - Quality Verification

Work Model

Hybrid

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.

Join us for an opportunity to work with the best game development teams in the world. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the tools development and automation team supporting BioWare, Motive, Maxis, Full Circle.

This Software Engineer role in the Software Quality organization works with Quality Assurance and Game Development teams to create tools and technical strategies. Our goal is to improve automation infrastructure and increase efficiencies in the Game Development and QA processes.

Your expertise in managing distributed, complex environments will be vital as you focus on service observability, alerting, operational security while ensuring uninterrupted experiences at scale.

You will work with multiple existing systems, some developer here, some developed externally. This will require collaborating with lots of different teams within EA. You will report into the Technical Director.

Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talent in the industry

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain tools, ensuring exceptional uptime, secure environments.
• First responder and driving continuous improvement based on root cause analysis.
• Develop AI, automation frameworks, tools, engine components and processes used across studios.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, operations and product teams to track, analyze and enhance quality, reliability and scalability of our services.
• Use modern software engineering processes and best practices for requirements, design, implementation, and testing.
• Create clear documentation to support workflow processes.
• Interpret requests from your QA and engineering partners, account for and call out any roadblocks or efficiencies your partners may not consider and propose and apply your creative or technical solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ year experience in managing distributed, scalable and resilient high-performing systems
• C#/.NET experience (C++ an asset)
• Experience implementing data and infrastructure security best practices.
• Experience with container workload technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm and Docker.
• Experience with several DevOps tools and methodologies.
• Experience with monitoring/observability systems such as Prometheus, Grafana and/or Datadog.
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery, using pipeline automation systems such as Jenkins, GitLab and GitHub.
• Experience working on game engines like Unreal or large commercial game engines.
• Experience working on an agile team to deliver technology.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer, Software Engineering, Computer Science Degree or related concentration, equivalent and/or combination of education and work experience.
• Experience with cloud native and container infrastructure an asset
• Experience with AI frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch an asset

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$100,000 - $139,500 CAD

In 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

We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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.