Senior Gameplay Engineer — Live Service & Multiplayer

Respawn Entertainment; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts is seeking a Gameplay Engineer to help build and support high-quality player-facing features for a live-service multiplayer game. You will partner with designers to prototype, implement, and polish gameplay systems that deliver engaging moment-to-moment experiences.

You will work with a cross-disciplinary team to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across weapons, abilities, modes, and updates, while guiding peers through code reviews and technical discussions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in gameplay software engineering.
• Shipped multiplayer titles and live-service experience.
• Advanced C++/C skills and a bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent.

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

Gameplay systems

C/C++ programming

Live service experience

Multiplayer titles

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Gameplay Engineer to help build and support high-quality player-facing features for a live-service multiplayer game. You will partner with designers to prototype, implement, and polish gameplay systems that deliver engaging moment-to-moment experiences.

You will work with a cross-disciplinary team to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across weapons, abilities, modes, and updates, while guiding peers through code reviews and technical discussions.