Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress at EA. We’re a world-class community of technologists, innovators, strategists, and orchestrators transforming interactive entertainment. Together, we power the platforms, AI-driven tools, live services, and infrastructure that ensure global scale, secure player experiences, and unlock bold new possibilities.
Infrastructure & Platform Services builds and runs the technology foundation for EA’s games. Our teams deliver the live services and backend infrastructure that are used to ship, scale, and operate secure, reliable game experiences for millions of players worldwide.
The Challenge Ahead:
The Gameplay Services Team develops services and SDKs in collaboration with EA's game studios for matchmaking, stats and leaderboards, achievements, game replays, VOIP, and game networking. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will build scalable, distributed server-side systems that provide functionality to our millions of customers and work on creative improvements to keep our systems at top-notch performance. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.
Responsibilities:
You will design brand new services covering all aspects from storage to application logic to management console.
You will enhance and add features to existing systems.
You will research and select new best-of-breed technologies to meet challenging requirements.
You will optimize performance and scalability of server systems.
You will be a part of the full product cycle for our products, from design and testing to deployment and supporting our LIVE environments and our game team customers.
Qualifications:
3+ years hands-on experience Java/Kotlin and Microservices
Expertise with relational or NoSQL database
Experience with stress-testing and performance-tuning and optimization
Experience debugging and optimization experience in a multi-threaded environment
Experience troubleshooting and mitigating issues in live environments
Bonus:
Experience with high traffic services and highly scalable, distributed systems
Experience with scalable data storage, streaming and processing technologies such as Postgres, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Spark
Experience with cloud computing products such as AWS EC2, ElastiCache, and ELB
Experience with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Redis
Experience working within the games industry
Knowledge of Google gRPC and protobuf