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Senior Software Engineer – Game Services
| Company | Blizzard Entertainment |
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| Location | Irvine, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $101000 – $186754 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5 years of professional experience with software development in C++
- Experience building high-quality software and protocol and API design
- Strong data-structure, logic, and algorithm skills
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design, development, and maintenance of large-scale distributed systems
- Implement features in SDKs that are used in all the games that are integrated with the Battle.net platform
- Create unit and integration test code to validate service reliability
- Write API documentation for consumption by game developers and other integrators
- Participate in on-call rotation to rapidly resolve live incidents related to our systems
- Coordinate with embedded and external teams
- Troubleshoot and debug issues with our live and in-development services
Preferred Qualifications
- A degree in computer science, or a related field
- Production quality engineering experience with C++17 or later
- Working knowledge of MySql, Cassandra, Redis, or related relational and NoSQL databases
- Prior development work on distributed systems and client/server architectures
- Experience in Cloud development and infrastructure
- Enthusiastic about supporting a live always-on service
- Skilled in Linux development, GDB debugging, and command line tools
