Senior Back End Engineer, Ads - Activision Blizzard Media
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Back End Engineer (Ads) - Activision Blizzard Media

Reporting To: VP of Ads Engineering

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Your Mission:

* Develop new feature, with unit tests, that can support our large-and-growing user base.
* Building highly scalable & distributed systems that handles over billion requests a day.
* Full ownership of building and delivering product features to production
* Whiteboard a fix to a scaling problem -- and then make it happen.
* Collaborate with peers to write, review, or provide feedback on a technical design proposal.
* Provide support to our operations staff in troubleshooting and addressing a production issue.

Player Profile:

* BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
* 5+ years of relevant work experience with BS or 3+ year with MS in Computer Science or related field.
* Very strong programming experience in Java.
* Experience with building microservices.
* Exposure to google cloud platform.
* Experience with Kafka, streaming systems.
* Prior development experience building large scale systems is a must.
* Experience with docker and other build and deployment frameworks.
* Strong troubleshooting experience and ability quickly jump into situations with few guardrails and make things better.
* Able to communicate effectively and clearly with other team members.
* Have strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
* Take ownership and can work independently.

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard Media is a rapidly growing business built to connect brands with our 350M + global player base across Activision, Blizzard and King.

We create premium, innovative advertising experiences for world-class casual mobile games like King's Candy Crush Saga. Looking ahead, we plan to launch advertising across the Activision Blizzard portfolio, including high growth areas like eSports. This is an exciting time to join this growing business.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the world's largest interactive entertainment company, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Destiny, Skylanders®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™, and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

We're proud to be recognized as one of FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies To Work For®" for four consecutive years and have earned a spot on FORTUNE's "Most Admired Companies," and "Future 50" lists. Our 10,000+ global employees are some of the best and brightest talents across entertainment, media, and technology.

The video game 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.

Activision Blizzard is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.