Senior Security Software Engineer

Electronic Arts•Austin, TX

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress at EA. We’re a world-class community of technologists, innovators, strategists, and orchestrators transforming interactive entertainment. Together, we power the platforms, AI-driven tools, live services, and infrastructure that ensure global scale, secure player experiences, and unlock bold new possibilities. EA Security protects our players, employees, products, and platforms. We set security standards, support game and enterprise teams, assess risk across partners and systems, and ensure compliance with global requirements. Our work strengthens system integrity, supports fair play, and enables teams to build and operate securely at scale. The Senior Security Software Engineer II reports to the Director, Developer Security in the Developer Security team. This role is aimed at engineers who operate beyond the scope of a single team or service. You will be responsible for identifying, shaping, and delivering solutions to complex, often ambiguous problems that span multiple systems and teams. You will help define and evolve the internal platforms that enable EA teams to build, ship, and operate software securely at scale. This includes working across software engineering, platform engineering, and SRE concerns, with a strong focus on developer experience, system reliability, and operational excellence. Our environment is intentionally polyglot, and you’ll be expected to work pragmatically across multiple languages, frameworks, and infrastructure rather than specialising in a single stack. Success in this role is measured not just by the code you write, but by the impact you have on how systems are designed, how teams operate, and how effectively engineers across the organisation can deliver high-quality software. You will play a key role in shaping the platforms and systems that power how EA builds and operates software. Your work will influence not just a single team, but how multiple teams across the company deliver reliable, secure, and scalable services to millions of players.

Requirements

10+ Years experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, with a strong understanding of production challenges and failure modes
A track record of delivering complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or domains, not just within a single codebase
Strong software engineering fundamentals, with deep proficiency in at least one modern programming language and the ability to work across others
Experience working across a broad, polyglot technology stack, for example: Backend and services: Node.js, .NET, Rust, PHP; Frontend and web platforms: React, Angular, Next.js, TypeScript; Infrastructure and platform: Kubernetes, AWS (including EKS, ECS/Fargate), CI/CD systems (e.g. GitLab CI), GitOps tooling (e.g. ArgoCD)
Proven ability to design or evolve platform-level systems, internal developer platforms, or shared infrastructure
Solid understanding of SRE principles, including observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and system health
Experience improving system reliability and developer productivity through automation, platform design, and intelligent tooling
Experience designing systems and workflows that are highly automatable and extensible, with well-defined interfaces for both human and programmatic use
Experience with modern delivery practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code and automated pipelines
Ability to navigate ambiguity, define problems, and drive solutions without needing detailed direction
Strong communication and influencing skills, with experience aligning engineers and stakeholders across teams

Nice To Haves

Experience building or scaling internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
Familiarity with large-scale CI/CD or build systems
Experience improving developer experience and productivity across organisations
Background in high-availability or live service environments
Exposure to security or compliance domains

Responsibilities

Own and drive large, cross-cutting technical initiatives that span multiple teams, systems, and domains
Define and break down ambiguous problem spaces, and lead them through to practical, high-impact solutions
Design and evolve internal platforms and shared services that improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience
Establish and promote engineering patterns and best practices in areas such as system design, observability, and service reliability
Lead architectural decisions, making pragmatic trade-offs across performance, reliability, cost, and speed of delivery
Contribute directly to critical parts of the system where deep technical expertise is required
Improve how systems are operated in production, including monitoring, incident response, and long-term reliability improvements
Influence technical direction across teams through design reviews, collaboration, and hands-on leadership
Mentor engineers at multiple levels, particularly Senior engineers, helping to raise the overall technical bar
Partner with teams across EA to understand workflows and remove friction through better platform design and tooling