Senior Security Platform Engineer for Scalable Systems

Electronic Arts (EA)

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Security Software Engineer II to shape and deliver secure, scalable systems across multiple teams. You will design internal platforms, define patterns, and lead architectural decisions with a strong focus on developer experience, reliability, and security at scale.

You will mentor engineers and influence across EA, collaborating with platform, SRE, and software teams to improve production reliability and security posture.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • Proven track record delivering complex initiatives across multiple teams or domains.
  • Strong fundamentals in one modern programming language and ability to work across others.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive large cross-cutting technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains.
  • Define and break down ambiguous problems and lead to practical, high-impact solutions.
  • Design and evolve internal platforms and shared services to improve scalability and developer experience.
  • Establish engineering patterns and best practices in system design, observability, and service reliability.
  • Lead architectural decisions with pragmatic trade-offs across performance, reliability, cost, and speed of delivery.
  • Contribute to critical parts of the system requiring deep technical expertise.
  • Improve production operations including monitoring, incident response, and long-term reliability.
  • Influence technical direction through design reviews and hands-on leadership.
  • Mentor engineers across levels, helping raise the technical bar.
  • Partner with EA teams to remove friction via better platform design and tooling.

Skills

Distributed systems
Polyglot stack
Node.js
.NET
Rust
TypeScript
Kubernetes
AWS
GitLab CI
ArgoCD
Observability
SRE principles

Tools

Kubernetes
AWS
GitLab CI
ArgoCD

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Security Software Engineer II to shape and deliver secure, scalable systems across multiple teams. You will design internal platforms, define patterns, and lead architectural decisions with a strong focus on developer experience, reliability, and security at scale.

You will mentor engineers and influence across EA, collaborating with platform, SRE, and software teams to improve production reliability and security posture.

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