Gameplay Engineer - Live Service & Multiplayer Prototyping

Electronic Arts; West Chatsworth (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks an experienced Gameplay Engineer to build and support high-quality player-facing gameplay features for a live-service multiplayer game. This role partners with designers and cross-disciplinary teams to prototype, implement, iterate, and polish features that contribute to compelling moment-to-moment gameplay and broader game experiences.

Your responsibilities include collaborating with designers to develop features, maintaining gameplay systems for reliability and

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software development engineering on gameplay teams.
• Shipped multiplayer video game titles.
• Experience working on Live Service video game titles.
• Experience working with a large codebase, managing and improving performance and budget.
• Advanced C++/C skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with designers to develop, prototype, iterate, and polish gameplay features that support the overall creative vision of the game.
• Implement and maintain gameplay systems with a focus on reliability, performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Support core gameplay development across multiple gameplay areas, including player-facing systems, weapons, abilities, and mode-specific features.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to help deliver features that integrate cleanly into the broader game experience.
• Work with engineers, designers, artists, animators, QA, and production to deliver high-quality features on schedule while managing technical risk.
• Investigate and resolve bugs, regressions, edge cases, and gameplay issues across a large, complex codebase.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews, and ongoing improvements to engineering standards, workflows, and shared gameplay technology.
• Help ensure that new gameplay features are robust, scalable, performant, and appropriate for a live multiplayer environment.
• Provide guidance to other engineers through technical feedback, implementation support, and clear communication of tradeoffs.

Skills

C/C++

Live service experience

Multiplayer games

Performance optimization

Code reviews

Education

Bachelors in CS or related

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks an experienced Gameplay Engineer to build and support high-quality player-facing gameplay features for a live-service multiplayer game. This role partners with designers and cross-disciplinary teams to prototype, implement, iterate, and polish features that contribute to compelling moment-to-moment gameplay and broader game experiences.

Your responsibilities include collaborating with designers to develop features, maintaining gameplay systems for reliability and