Electronic Arts' Marketing team is looking to build content, culture, and community around their brands by empowering audiences to Play, Create, Watch, and Connect across their franchises. The EA Esports team specifically needs to enhance their esports technology stack to boost internal efficiency, drive fan engagement, and improve the player experience.
Requirements
- Proficiency in modern programming languages within our stack, including Go, TypeScript, SQL, JavaScript, VueJS / NuxtJS, and NodeJS
- Strong understanding of API design (REST) and real-time communication protocols (WebSockets, OSC)
- Experience operating production services at scale (Docker, autoscaling, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and alerting)
- Strong SQL schema design and query optimization fundamentals
- Familiarity with GitHub and project tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) and the ability to produce clear technical documentation
- Experience working with cloud architecture across platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience using Protobuf for data serialization
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the planning, design, implementation, and testing of our internal tournament management tools, APIs, stats databases, competition websites, and other player-facing esports features
- Partner with EA’s broadcast teams and external partners to serve programmatic competition data (stats, rosters, schedules, event metadata), enabling them to create extraordinary live broadcasts and in-arena experiences for players and fans
- Partner closely with EA’s broadcast teams and external partners that drives world‑class shows and products
- Help identify, negotiate with, and ultimately integrate technology solutions from external vendors that improve player and fan experiences around our global esports programs
- Uphold engineering excellence: code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and incident response with a rotational on‑call during live events
- Foster strong relationships with other engineering teams within EA to leverage existing products and technology to achieve our goals
- Spend roughly 70% of your time hands-on programming, building and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable code
Other
- Work as part of the League Operations team to support the delivery of exceptional online and in-person esports competitions and broadcasts
- Comfort managing multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, live‑event environment; willingness to support a rotational on‑call and work some evenings/weekends during event periods; ability to travel internationally for esports events several times per year (approx. 5–10%)
- You enjoy being a subject matter expert and one of the 'go-to' people for all things esports technology, statistics, and other competition data
- Knowledge of worldwide esports industry trends, programs, and best practices
- Prior collaboration with broadcast and live event production teams in esports or sports
