Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise Data & Streaming

Electronic Arts; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Software Engineer III to own design and delivery of scalable, distributed systems and data pipelines. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure operational excellence across a cloud-based stack.

You will contribute to live service platforms, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help shape engineering practices while reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Expertise in software design, distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms.
• Proficiency in Java, with the ability to write production-grade, maintainable code.
• Experience designing and building scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines, streaming frameworks (Kafka, Flink, Storm), or large-scale data processing systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and distributed architectures.
• Experience with system reliability, observability, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own large-scale, distributed systems and services with high availability, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Lead end-to-end development of complex features from design through deployment and operation.
• Drive architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs in scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• Build and maintain robust data pipelines and real-time streaming systems using modern distributed technologies.
• Ensure operational excellence by implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices; participate in on-call rotations as needed.
• Improve system performance through profiling, benchmarking, and optimization of compute, memory, and I/O.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, testing strategies, and CI/CD best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers, provide technical guidance, and contribute to team growth and knowledge sharing.
• Identify technical debt and drive initiatives to improve system health, reliability, and developer productivity.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Backend architecture

Data pipelines

AWS

Observability

SQL/NoSQL databases

Docker/Kubernetes

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Storm

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Electronic Arts in Kirkland, WA is seeking a Software Engineer III to own design and delivery of scalable, distributed systems and data pipelines. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and ensure operational excellence across a cloud-based stack.

You will contribute to live service platforms, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help shape engineering practices while reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering.