Senior Multiplayer Engine Engineer

Electronic Arts (EA); Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 141,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Software Engineer to collaborate with Research Scientists and Engineers and shape how new technologies integrate into core engine architecture. The role is a hybrid position with onsite three days a week at Vancouver, Montreal, or Redwood City, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

You will translate ideas from exploration into scalable engine systems, working at the intersection of research and production to bring AI-assisted creation and procedural systems

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering in AAA game engines.
• Experience with large C++ codebases.
• Experience implementing gameplay networking features.
• Proficiency across engine development domains (e.g., gameplay, simulation, systems, content pipelines, performance-critical systems).
• Experience navigating unfamiliar areas of a large codebase and becoming productive quickly in tools, pipeline, or runtime systems.
• Experience collaborating with others to translate applied research goals into production-ready engine features.
• Experience contributing to engine architecture or developer-facing platforms.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).

Responsibilities

• Build upon and extend the low-level networking layer of the engine.
• Design, implement, and instrument networking features to support multiplayer at scale.
• Partner with engine developers, ensuring gameplay features and systems have full multiplayer support.
• Define patterns and best practices for multiplayer-ready code.
• Contribute across engine domains, including tools, data pipelines, and runtime systems, to improve the capabilities of the engine.

Skills

C++

AAA game engines

Networking

CI/CD

Gameplay systems

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Software Engineer to collaborate with Research Scientists and Engineers and shape how new technologies integrate into core engine architecture. The role is a hybrid position with onsite three days a week at Vancouver, Montreal, or Redwood City, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

You will translate ideas from exploration into scalable engine systems, working at the intersection of research and production to bring AI-assisted creation and procedural systems