Software Engineer- III

Job Summary

As a Software Engineer- III at Electronic Arts, you will lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, high-throughput live service platform components that power multiple EA game studios. You will partner with cross-functional teams to streamline and evolve the live services workflow, evaluate and define how EA's live service platforms, studio technology stacks, and third-party/vendor solutions integrate to meet engineering and business objectives in a scalable and cost-effective manner.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, high-throughput live service platform components that power multiple EA game studios.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including Content Management & Delivery, Messaging, Segmentation, Recommendation, and Experimentation to streamline and evolve the live services workflow.
• Evaluate and define how EA's live service platforms, studio technology stacks, and third-party/vendor solutions integrate to meet engineering and business objectives in a scalable and cost-effective manner.
• Own technical design reviews and drive architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are resilient, extensible, secure, and aligned with long-term platform strategy.
• Use large-scale datasets across 20+ game studios to promote data-driven decision-making, experimentation, and continuous optimization.
• Engage with Game Studios, Experience, and Brand organizations to deeply understand use cases, translate business requirements into technical designs, and drive end-to-end solution delivery.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management to prioritize initiatives, define measurable outcomes, and deliver solutions with clear ROI.
• Partner with Program Management to define sprint goals, plan and prioritize work, and own the team's sprint commitments and delivery outcomes.
• Partner with Legal and Privacy teams to ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements and data governance standards.
• Lead and mentor engineers, providing technical direction, conducting design/code reviews, and fostering engineering excellence.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across multiple teams, locations, and time zones by communicating architecture, trade-offs, risks, and execution plans clearly and effectively.
• Ensure operational excellence for 24/7 live services through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7-9 years of relevant industry experience in designing and building scalable distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in software design principles, algorithms, and data structures.
• Proven architectural and system design experience, including hands-on ownership of highly scalable, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing engineering teams (2-3+ years), including mentoring, technical guidance, and driving delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience collaborating across product, engineering, legal, and business teams.
• Proficiency in Java and at least one scripting language (preferably Python).
• Hands-on experience with backend frameworks and technologies (e.g., Spring Boot).
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems using messaging and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong experience with large-scale data pipelines, personalization platforms, analytics systems, and experimentation frameworks.
• Experience with relational, columnar, and/or document-oriented databases.
• Experience managing high-traffic, 24/7 production systems with complex dependencies in cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Solid understanding of multi-cloud architectures and large-scale data processing systems.
• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., GitLab CI/CD).
• Familiarity with modern software development best practices, including clean code principles, automated testing, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks such as React) is a plus.

Benefits

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more.

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