Software Engineer Backend

As a Software Engineer II - Online Backend for Gameplay Services at Electronic Arts, you will be part of a team that powers online features for EA's games, aiming to make every player's multiplayer experience memorable. Your primary mission will be to optimize the matchmaking process to enhance the gaming encounters for players worldwide. **Key Responsibilities:** - Design brand new services covering all aspects from storage to application logic to management console - Enhance and add features to existing systems - Research and select new best-of-breed technologies to meet challenging requirements - Communicate with engineers from across the company to deliver the next generation of online features for both established and not-yet-released games - Aim to optimize performance and scalability of server systems - Participate in the full product cycle from design and testing to deployment and support for LIVE environments and game team customers - Maintain a suite of automated tests to validate the correctness of backend services - Advocate for best practices within the engineering team - Collaborate with product managers to enhance new features supporting EA's business **Qualifications:** - Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field - 2+ years professional programming experience with Go/C#/C++ - Experience with cloud computing products such as AWS EC2, ElastiCache, and ELB - Experience with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform - Experience with relational or NoSQL databases - Familiarity with all phases of the product development lifecycle - Strong problem-solving skills - Excellent collaboration abilities - Effective written and verbal communication skills - Self-motivated and capable of working autonomously **Bonus Qualifications:** - Experience with Jenkins and Groovy - Experience with Ansible - Knowledge of Google gRPC and protobuf - Experience with high traffic services and highly scalable, distributed systems - Familiarity with scalable data storage and processing technologies such as Cassandra, Apache Spark, and AWS S3 - Experience with stress testing, performance tuning, and optimization - Previous work experience in the games industry Join Electronic Arts, where creativity thrives, and ideas matter. Benefit from a holistic approach to wellness and a supportive work environment that encourages growth and development.,