Senior Engine Networking Architect (Hybrid)

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

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Redwood City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help extend the core engine with multiplayer networking at scale. You will translate research ideas into production-ready infrastructure and work across engine domains to enable advanced gameplay features and AI-assisted creation in a live environment.

This hybrid role offers on-site work three days a week in Redwood City, with opportunities to collaborate with researchers and engineers across studios while shaping the next

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience with AAA game engines (e.g., Frostbite, Unity, Unreal, Godot, or proprietary)
• Experience with large C++ codebases
• Experience implementing gameplay networking features
• Proficiency across engine development domains (e.g., gameplay, simulation, systems, content pipelines, and 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++ codebase

Gameplay networking

AAA engine

CI/CD tools

Collaborative development

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Electronic Arts in Redwood City is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help extend the core engine with multiplayer networking at scale. You will translate research ideas into production-ready infrastructure and work across engine domains to enable advanced gameplay features and AI-assisted creation in a live environment.

This hybrid role offers on-site work three days a week in Redwood City, with opportunities to collaborate with researchers and engineers across studios while shaping the next