Senior Software Engineer, Production Technology
Blizzard Entertainment - Irvine, CA
posted 3 days ago
About the position
Blizzard prides itself on continuing to support the historic games that made us who we are today. Keeping these games running as technology marches forward takes effort, and we need a hero to own and direct that effort. Whether it's battling the Zerg in the Koprulu sector or defeating your opponents in the Nexus, these treasured classics need a versatile champion to maintain, shape, and advance the technology underpinning these games. You should be spec'd into engineering talents, with a passion for leadership and planning, and armed with a hunger to use modern technology to create sustainable solutions. So, if you like merging technology with player experience, working with a small team and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players, we would love to hear from you. This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Albany, NY or Irvine, CA.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrating your technical experience to coordinate and improve impact across several groups of cross-disciplined engineers while minimizing duplicated efforts
- Evaluating the technical challenges of our partner teams and applying your experience to help lead the assembled team(s) to provide strong value-driven solutions.
- Mentoring, developing, and inspiring, as well as learning from, the engineers that report to you
- Continuously working with Prod Tech leadership, as well as the business as a whole, to make our team a top-tier destination for the most dedicated engineers in the industry
- Sharing ideas and technology to partner teams throughout Blizzard in a clear and effective way
- Working with stakeholders to drive a blameless culture around incident management
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience using C++
- 2+ years' experience professional Linux development
- Professional experience working with relational databases
- Strong organization skills, product sense and ability to execute at a high level
- Maintaining and building code for distributed systems
Nice-to-haves
- Can self-assess the needs of a system, codebase, or team, and make a case to prioritize that work
- Enjoy maintaining the uptime of always-on, always-available live global services
- Experience developing on multiple platforms - Windows, Mac, Linux
- Owning a tech stack from continuing development to live operation
- Developing and operating highly available, distributed, live, real-time services
- Developing in a context where many dependent services are owned by other teams
- Ability to lead and develop other engineers
- Working with mature legacy codebases
- Developing software that is used globally in compliance with local regulations
- Database development experience (RDBMS)
- CI/CD
- Linux and/or MacOS development experience
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job
