Senior Server Engineer
Studio: Maxis - Mobile
Location: Redwood Shores, CA
Creativity, collaboration, and communication are what make us tick as we prepare ourselves for massive amounts of growth and an incredible amount of fun. We want to engage our players and create the most entertaining mobile titles in the world. Come and see for yourself, the future is here.
We are looking for an experienced individual who will design, build, deploy, and run highly scalable and stable server architectures for connected functionality in our newest mobile game. The engineer will work as part of a game team to create and refine game server frameworks as well as contribute to design and implementation of launch and post-launch strategies.
As a Server Software Engineer for a mobile game at EA, you will:
- Design, develop, and run a fast, massively scalable, highly available game service all the way from conception to delivery to live service operations
- Work with designers, client engineering, and production teams to achieve gameplay goals and objectives that are supported by the service
- Provide solutions that address network latency, reliability, and scalability issues
- Implement security best practices and original techniques to keep user data secure and prevent cheating
- Be held to high quality standards through technical guidance, leadership, and mentoring
- Create and run automated testing, readiness testing, and deployment plans
- Monitor the performance and costs of the server infrastructure to drive continuous improvement
Qualifications: - 4+ years development of scalable back-end services
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Proficiency in C++ Server Development, Node JS and REST services
- Understanding of Java Server Environment and familiarity with frameworks such as Guice/Spring
- Deep experience with Cloud services like Amazon Web Services
- Experience with Database Design and caching and usage of large datasets in both relational (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Preferably Cassandra) environments
- Deep understanding of different networking technologies, protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, REST)
- Willingness to be part of a live team, with rapid responses to emerging issues
Assets:
- Experience managing Cassandra environments
- Proficiency in Linux, commands, and operating against live environment
- Conscious of server operating costs. Being aware of the cost of running live servers, and a drive to minimize them
- Ability to quickly run scripts and queries against Cassandra environment to get data or fix data when needed.
EA 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 or veteran status. We will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law.
