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Software Engineer II - Cloud Platform Innovation

Software Engineer within EA's Cloud Platform:

Cloud innovations change the gaming industry landscape every day, adding new capabilities, enabling new scenarios, and redefining the category. Within EA, the Cloud engineering group builds the critical service infrastructure that underpins EA’s current generation of games and fuels innovation of the next wave. We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to join the team driving the Cloud engineering platform from development into production.

As a Software Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to contribute to the containerized software and services infrastructure that powers and supports EA games. Working closely with your team lead, you will scope and estimate feature work, create and contribute features to the codebase, fix bugs, review others’ code, and ship incredible games.

What a Software Engineer II does on EA’s Cloud Platform team:

• Works directly with divisional and game studio partners to understand priorities and requirements while contributing to releasing games to market
• Collaborates with product and program management to ensure clarity and understanding of features and priorities.
• Develops creative solutions that address customer requests, new product features, and production defects.
• Evolves project statements into preliminary engineering designs and topologies.
• Expands designs into engineering execution plans and engineering tasks
• Tracks issues and items using team development tools, prioritizing and communicating development progress.
• Design, develop, and test product features.
• Validates that product has passed quality gates. Contributes to post-mortems for unsuccessful releases.
• Collaborates with support teams to debug and resolve production incidents
• Enhances EA’s engineering capabilities through tracking of peers, industry, segment, and technology.

The Next Great EA Software Engineer needs to have:

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering
• Hands-on commercial development experience, preferably on a services team
• Proficiency with an OO language
• Experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCloud, etc.)
• Experience of teamwork within a modern service development lifecycle.
• Analytical and creative problem-solving skills; solution-oriented individual

Bonus Experience Points:

• Server-side languages such as Go and Python
• Exposure to Web development frameworks
• Public cloud provider experience (AWS, Azure, GAE, etc.)
• Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Engineering Collaboration software - JIRA, GitLab, GitHub, Confluence

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