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Senior Technical Lead, Game Services Social

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The Battle.net Game Services Social team provides highly scalable back-end services integrated with multiplayer games and social apps published by Activision Blizzard, which power cross-title social and player management. Our mission is to enable developers to create highly polished and reliable social features quickly and with quality, so they can focus on creating experiences that unlock the greatness of gaming together.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience with software development in C++, including C++11 or later
• 2+ years of technical leadership and coaching
• Excellent communication skills and ability to contribute to a collaborative environment
• Experience building distributed systems and client/server applications
• Experience with Linux development, GDB debugging, and command line tools
• Experience with Windows application or service development
• Knowledge of at least one scalable storage technology
• Knowledge of network and server security issues
• Experience with performance analysis and code optimization
• Experience with protocol and API design
• Self-motivated and able to break down complex tasks

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Software Engineering
• 8+ years of experience with software development in C++, including C++17 or later
• Experience creating APIs and/or SDKs for use by other developers
• Experience integrating APIs and services published by other developers
• Experience with Functional Programming through Rust, OCaml, Scala, F#, or Haskell
• GCP, AWS, Alicloud, OpenStack or other public/private cloud experience
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, Argo CD, etc.
• Experience working with low-latency message systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, NATS, TIBCO Messaging, etc.
• Working knowledge of MySql, Cassandra, Redis, or related relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience supporting a live always-on service
• A passion for video games and technology

About the Role

In this role, you will provide technical leadership and manage the engineers on an Empowered Product Team that develops scalable, highly performant and highly available global game services, as well as collaborate with game team collaborators across the company. This role focuses on building and improving the services which power social and player management functionality, as used by studios across Activision and Blizzard and daily by millions of players concurrently. This team is the lynchpin of Battle.net player systems and you will be involved in some fashion on every major release!

Candidates should be skilled at team leadership, have experience developing large distributed systems with a strong focus on server-side C++, and exhibit a passion for creating service APIs used by other teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team that develops highly scalable distributed services and APIs for integration by a wide variety of games and game related products
• Manage, coach, support, and guide the careers of a varied workforce of development, automation, and operations engineers
• Serve as an active partner within the larger Game Service leadership group to improve our engineering culture and foster collaboration
• Work closely with Product Managers to define viable product features that our customers love and that work for our business
• Work with Project Managers and other Technical Leads to coordinate downstream dependencies on the services
• Review technical design artifacts and provide constructive feedback
• Drive the ongoing effort to improve our platform services, to achieve ever increasing capabilities, service scale and availability
• Ensure that that the team adheres to established coding standards & development philosophies, maintains efficient coding practices, and produces clean code that works
• Perform research to discover new, enabling technologies and acquire knowledge necessary to complete work you're leading
• Participate in on-call rotation to rapidly resolve live incidents related to our systems
• Focus on outcomes, rather than output
• Uphold and promote the Blizzard Core Values

About Us

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to our employees. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We’ve worked hard to champion 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 an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences... ever.

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