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Principal Software Engineer, Hearthstone

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Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented and enthusiastic principal engineer to join our Hearthstone team in Irvine, California. This engineer will work primary on the server platform of the Hearthstone service as part of a dedicated and player-focused team developing a world-class strategy game, enabling the potential of our developers to create insanely fun content. The ideal candidate will have a passion for writing robust, efficient code, and an understanding of the challenges involved with simulating and scaling a networked client/server game. Blizzard Entertainment offers a fun, creative, and technically challenging environment with excellent compensation and a full range of benefits.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of large systems with fellow team members from multiple disciplines to help design and implement the future of Hearthstone
• Architect systems for performance, stability, and error-free operation
• Be a highly effective contributor providing concrete answers to the most challenging problems
• Proactively identify and plan tangible improvements across the larger product
• Mentor and educate engineers on the team and beyond

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with server programming
• Experience in decision making and build consensus across teams
• Expert C++ programming skills
• Experience with maintaining a live service
• Self-motivated and willingness to pitch in on many areas of game development
• Database development experience (MySQL, Oracle, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Pluses

• Previous experience shipping game titles or other software
• Linux development experience
• Networking experience in TCP / IP and UDP protocols
• Computer science or related degree
• Experience with large scale distributing computing

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