Senior Software Engineer (Devops)

Electronic Arts • Vancouver, BC

4d • CA$141,400 - CA$204,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

Electronic Arts is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Game Developer Experience (GDX) team. The role reports to a Senior Technical Director and helps build and scale the continuous integration ecosystem powering builds and preflight systems across multiple EA games. The team delivers a CI platform optimized for performance, cost, reliability, scalability, and the evolving needs of game development teams. This is a hybrid role based in Vancouver or Austin, working with studio partners to improve the build platform.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Experience working on large-scale build/release systems or developer platforms, such as AAA game systems or DevOps platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD principles and workflows.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting or programming languages, such as C#, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including identifying risks and proposing practical solutions.
• Clear communication skills and ability to work effectively in a hybrid, collaborative environment.

Nice To Haves

• Perforce experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or similar tools.
• Write automation using C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Troubleshoot build failures and improve performance.
• Support Git-based workflows; Perforce experience is a plus.
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Chef, or similar tools.
• Partner with studio teams to improve reliability, observability, and developer workflows.
• Contribute to incident response and continuous system improvements.

Benefits

• Three weeks of vacation per year to start.
• 10 days of sick time per year.
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child: 12 weeks for maternity leave and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave.
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
• Healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, and complimentary games may be included in locally tailored benefit packages.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed