Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Live Services

Electronic Arts (EA); Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts (EA) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to shape backend architecture for scalable, live-game services. You will work with researchers and engineers to integrate new technologies, including AI-assisted creation, into a world-class engine used by millions of players.

This hybrid role is onsite three days a week in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on coding experience.
• Experience shipping and supporting scalable web services on public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Expertise with Python and Postgres.
• Experience owning large systems from design to deployment and live support.
• Experience building high-quality, testable software and reusable APIs.
• Familiar with load testing, performance optimization, and debugging distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engine developers to enable generative creation workflows.
• Develop massively scalable web services for millions of players.
• Blend security practices with innovative techniques to protect data.
• Improve deployment and troubleshooting to maximize uptime.
• Design and implement APIs and protocols that are formal and testable.
• Solve complex problems under evolving game development requirements.
• Write and review technical designs and API specs.
• Maintain automated tests for backend services.
• Participate in 24-hour live environment support.
• Maintain live services and ongoing upkeep.

Skills

8+ years experience

Scalable web services

Python

Postgres

API design & deployment

Testing & QA

Zero-downtime APIs

CI/CD tools

AI coding agents

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Jenkins

GitLab

Claude Code

Job description

Electronic Arts (EA) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to shape backend architecture for scalable, live-game services. You will work with researchers and engineers to integrate new technologies, including AI-assisted creation, into a world-class engine used by millions of players.

This hybrid role is onsite three days a week in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver, reporting to the Director of Engineering.