Senior software engineer production technology

Job Description: Responsibilities :

Demonstrating your technical experience to coordinate and improve impact across several groups of cross-disciplined engineers while minimizing duplicated efforts

Evaluating the technical challenges of our partner teams and applying your experience to help lead the assembled team(s) to provide strong value-driven solutions.

Mentoring, developing, and inspiring, as well as learning from, the engineers that report to you

Continuously working with Prod Tech leadership, as well as the business as a whole, to make our team a top-tier destination for the most dedicated engineers in the industry

Sharing ideas and technology to partner teams throughout Blizzard in a clear and effective way

Working with stakeholders to drive a blameless culture around incident management

Requirements:

5+ years of professional software engineering experience using C++

2+ years’ experience professional Linux development

Professional experience working with relational databases

Strong organization skills, product sense and ability to execute at a high level

Maintaining and building code for distributed systems

Bonus:

Can self-assess the needs of a system, codebase, or team, and make a case to prioritize that work

Enjoy maintaining the uptime of always-on, always-available live global services

Experience developing on multiple platforms – Windows, Mac, Linux

Owning a tech stack from continuing development to live operation

Developing and operatinghighly available, distributed, live, real-time services

Developing in a context where many dependent services are owned by other teams

Ability to lead and develop other engineers

Working with mature legacy codebases

Developing software that is used globally in compliance with local regulations

Database development experience (RDBMS)

CI/CD

Linux and/or MacOS development experience

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. 

Accommodation Request: We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to . General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, weve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. Were on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiencesever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard secret recipe, but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World – weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;

(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;

Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;

Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;

If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Responsibilities :

Demonstrating your technical experience to coordinate and improve impact across several groups of cross-disciplined engineers while minimizing duplicated efforts

Evaluating the technical challenges of our partner teams and applying your experience to help lead the assembled team(s) to provide strong value-driven solutions.

Mentoring, developing, and inspiring, as well as learning from, the engineers that report to you

Continuously working with Prod Tech leadership, as well as the business as a whole, to make our team a top-tier destination for the most dedicated engineers in the industry

Sharing ideas and technology to partner teams throughout Blizzard in a clear and effective way

Working with stakeholders to drive a blameless culture around incident management

Requirements:

5+ years of professional software engineering experience using C++

2+ years’ experience professional Linux development

Professional experience working with relational databases

Strong organization skills, product sense and ability to execute at a high level

Maintaining and building code for distributed systems

Bonus:

Can self-assess the needs of a system, codebase, or team, and make a case to prioritize that work

Enjoy maintaining the uptime of always-on, always-available live global services

Experience developing on multiple platforms – Windows, Mac, Linux

Owning a tech stack from continuing development to live operation

Developing and operatinghighly available, distributed, live, real-time services

Developing in a context where many dependent services are owned by other teams

Ability to lead and develop other engineers

Working with mature legacy codebases

Developing software that is used globally in compliance with local regulations

Database development experience (RDBMS)

CI/CD

Linux and/or MacOS development experience

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. 

Accommodation Request: We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to . General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, weve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. Were on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiencesever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard secret recipe, but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World – weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;

(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;

Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;

Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;

If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

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