Senior Architect, Real-Time Matchmaking at Scale

Activision; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 143,000 - 304,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in Vancouver seeks an Associate Principal Software Engineer for its Matchmaking team. The role focuses on architecting and optimizing matchmaking systems, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring high-performance standards. Ideal candidates have over 15 years of software development experience and expertise in backend languages like Python and C++. This position offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Extended health plan

RRSP with company match

Paid holidays and vacation

Mental health and wellbeing programs

Fitness programs

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design and operate large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in experimentation platforms and machine learning.
• Experience with game engines (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate scalable matchmaking services for millions of players.
• Lead design discussions, code reviews, and maintain engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with data scientists to analyze player experience metrics.

Skills

Expertise in backend language (Python preferred)

Expertise in C++

Strong background in algorithms and data structures

Experience with networking fundamentals

Skilled in monitoring and incident response

Education

15+ years of professional software development experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

A leading gaming company in Vancouver seeks an Associate Principal Software Engineer for its Matchmaking team. The role focuses on architecting and optimizing matchmaking systems, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring high-performance standards. Ideal candidates have over 15 years of software development experience and expertise in backend languages like Python and C++. This position offers competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits.