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Producer, Development Technology - Blizzard Core Tech

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Are you a passionate producer and overall good person looking to support creative people making amazing worlds? Do you dream of a world where people are free to be creative while the machines handle the grind? Does helping produce the core technology used by every one of our games sounds like fun?

The Developer Tech team at Blizzard is built to empower and optimize the process of game development. We're seeking a Producer that will add their unique voice to our team and help us realize an ambitious yet realistic multi-year, multi-product roadmap. In this role you will work across Blizzard and partner with different teams to help deliver a world class development environment and provide a platform for our future.

As part of this role, you will work with experienced engineers to smooth and enhance the everyday workflow of your fellow developers. As an ideal candidate, you will have a strong technical background with a proven track record of learning new technology and processes quickly and efficiently. However, you will also understand through strong emotional intelligence and communication skills that being ideal is great, but rarely achievable. In this role you will be comfortable explaining the difference and telling us how your skills will help build a better Blizzard.

Join us and help craft an amazing future!

Responsibilities

• Own the tactical execution of our software development lifecycle, contribute to the strategic vision of Blizzard’s core technology
• Champion the adage of people above process, while ensuring that our processes meet our business needs
• Act as a live service owner, proactively driving issue prevention, diagnosis, mitigation, and root cause analysis
• Communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders to engage them in our products and services development
• Author technical documentation and explore new ways of communicating with a userbase of thousands of engineers

Requirements

• Strong technical background with a proven ability to pick up new challenges quickly and easily
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability in tackling new challenges, even when outside your immediate area of responsibility
• Able to develop long-term relationships across partner teams anywhere within the organization
• Knowledge of software development processes and strong project management skills
• Detail and process oriented with strong organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively under important deadlines
• Calm and deliberate within a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative
• Clear and concise communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Pluses

• Experience working with tools used to shipped AAA game title
• Experience with Windows, Linux, or Mac systems administration
• Experience with monitoring tools (eg. Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB)
• Familiarity with development tools (eg. Visual Studio, make, gcc)
• Familiarity with cloud development (eg. GCP)
• Knowledge of what a stack trace is and how to use it

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work/life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Join us!

Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.