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Battle.net & Online ProductsJob Title:Senior Software Engineer, Production TechnologyRequisition ID:R027475Job Description:

Blizzard's game teams thrive when they can ride the wave of what's next: new platforms, new capabilities, and the services and features our shared technology provides to unlock them. Staying ahead of that curve takes legendary effort: scouting what's coming, adapting our durable shared services to deliver new capabilities, and making sure teams can adopt them without losing momentum. We're looking for a seasoned specialist with a multi-class mindset to join a small, high-impact team and help our teams keep pace as the world changes.
Whether it's battling the Zerg in the Koprulu sector or outplaying your opponents in the Nexus, great adventures are forged when the right foundations hold strong. Our teams need a versatile champion to maintain, shape, and advance shared services by evolving the features teams depend on, introducing new capabilities, and ensuring it all works reliably at scale. You should be spec'd into engineering talents, armed with a hunger to build sustainable solutions, and ready to take on challenges whose victories ripple across many teams at once.
So, if you like merging technology with player experience, working with a small team, and tackling problems where early exploration becomes long-term wins for the studio, we would love to hear from you.
This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. However, we understand each person's circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore otherpossible options,including remote work arrangements.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering shared platform capabilities that scale across multiple game teams, increasing leverage while minimizing duplicated engineering effort
• Evaluating partner teams' technical challenges and leading through design, architecture, tradeoff analysis, and clear documentation to ship solutions that unlock new capabilities and accelerate adoption
• Mentoring engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and constructive feedback-raising the bar while continuing to learn from teammates
• Upholding a high-trust, high-craft engineering culture that makes the team a top-tier destination for dedicated engineers
• Communicating technical concepts and shared solutions clearly across partner teams to drive understanding and adoption
• Partnering with stakeholders across teams to iteratively refine shared solutions through clear rationale, structured feedback, and well-framed technical tradeoffs
• Diving deep into existing game codebases to uncover new opportunities, unlock new capabilities, and help both classic and modern Blizzard games continue to evolve

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience using C++
• 2+ years' of professional Linux development experience
• Professional experience working with relational databases
• Strong organization skills, product sense and ability to execute at a high level
• Experience with designing, developing and maintaining highly available, distributed, live, real-time services
• Experience with owning a tech stack from continuing development to live operation

Bonus:

• Experience with other languages such as Go, C#, Java, Python, and Typescript/JavaScript
• Can self-assess the needs of a system, codebase, or team, and make a case to prioritize that work
• Passion for the uptime of always-on, always-available live global services
• Experience developing on MacOS, iOS, Android, and consoles.
• Developing in a context where many dependent services are owned by other teams
• Experience with mature legacy codebases
• Developing software that is used globally in compliance with local regulations
• Comfort working around CI/CD pipelines, including running builds, understanding pipeline behavior, and making thoughtful changes as part of broader system work

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've 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;
• 401(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.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $102,800.00 - $190,204.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.