Senior Networking Engineer, Game Engine — Multiplayer at Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the engine with scalable networking and multiplayer features. You will work across research and production to bring new technologies into a world-class engine used by millions of players.

The role is hybrid, onsite three days a week, in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver. You will report to the Director of Engineering and collaborate with Research Scientists and Engineers to translate creative ideas into production-ready

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience with large C++ codebases
• Experience implementing gameplay networking features
• Proficiency across engine development domains (gameplay, simulation, systems, pipelines, performance)
• Experience navigating large codebases and becoming productive quickly in tools, pipelines, or runtime systems
• Experience collaborating to translate research goals into production-ready 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 to ensure gameplay features have full multiplayer support
• Define patterns and best practices for multiplayer-ready code
• Contribute across engine domains, including tools, data pipelines, and runtime systems

Skills

C++

Networking

Engine development

AAA engines

Large codebases

Gameplay engineering

Collaboration

CI/CD

Job description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the engine with scalable networking and multiplayer features. You will work across research and production to bring new technologies into a world-class engine used by millions of players.

The role is hybrid, onsite three days a week, in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver. You will report to the Director of Engineering and collaborate with Research Scientists and Engineers to translate creative ideas into production-ready