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Lead Software Engineer, Server

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Lead Software Engineer, Server

Pull up a chair and join us! Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented and enthusiastic lead software engineer to join the Hearthstone team. This position’s primary responsibility will be to provide technical leadership for a team of engineers that supports and improves Hearthstone’s server.

You don’t need to play Hearthstone to apply for this role. We want diverse voices and varied backgrounds to build gameplay, features, and experiences that will help us reach as broad an audience as possible. Blizzard offers a fun, creative, and technically challenging environment with excellent compensation and a full range of benefits.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance for a team of engineers.
• Review completed engineering tasks in collaboration with production staff and other leads.
• Work with the Technical Director to promote and apply the core values of the Hearthstone engineering team.
• Help make improvements to the team’s ability to develop and support the game.
• Drive long-term service stability and capability.
• Advocate Blizzard’s core values, especially “Gameplay First”.

Requirements

• Strong, proven C++ programming skills with strong data-structure, logic, and algorithm skills.
• Experience working in a client/server architecture with distributed back-end services with high concurrencies.
• Previous leadership experience.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• A significant experience in delivering production-level code in a professional environment.
• Familiarity with Hearthstone, at least at a casual player level.

Pluses

• Experience interacting with a relational Database (Oracle, MySQL, etc.)
• Strong Linux development experience (server applications, gdb debugging, etc.)
• Low level network knowledge and diagnosis including packet capture (tcpdump, wireshark), routing, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, NAT busting.
• Experience supporting a live service.
• Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related degree.
• Familiarity with other Blizzard Entertainment products.