Blizzard prides itself on continuing to support the historic games that made us who we are today. Keeping these games running as technology marches forward takes effort, and we need a hero to own and direct that effort. 

Whether it's battling the Zerg in the Koprulu sector or defeating your opponents in the Nexus, these treasured classics need a versatile champion to maintain, shape, and advance the technology underpinning these games. You should be spec'd into engineering talents, with a passion for leadership and planning, and armed with a hunger to use modern technology to create sustainable solutions. 

So, if you like merging technology with player experience, working with a small team and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players, 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 potential home studio for this role is Albany, NY or Irvine, CA.

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: 

• 7+ 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 operating highly 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 [email protected]. 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, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. 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.