Software Engineer, Content Platform
Irvine, CA

Job Description

The Battle.net & Online Products organization is home to 300+ superpowered engineers, program managers, and designers focused on the technology that powers Blizzard Entertainment's games. Whether you're playing one of our titles, chatting with friends, or just shopping online, B&OP ensures that our players are immersed in engaging, exciting, and secure experiences.

As a Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing Blizzard products by contributing new features and optimizations to the architecture, tools and development workflow of our Content Platform, the system that powers news, patch notes, comics and forums across dozens of Blizzard websites, apps, and internal systems. You'll work side-by-side with other framework maintainers and feature contributors, helping to drive stability, performance, testing and maintainability through consultation and code review.

If you're right for this role, you're an expert at building scalable web platforms, applications, tools and build processes, and have a strong sense for design and UX. You're also an effective communicator, ready to collaborate with numerous partners to help make content creation and consumption as epic as possible. Ultimately, you'll help the team overcome some of our most unusual, vital challenges: rapidly growing our digital experiences and unlocking Blizzard content for millions of users.

Responsibilities

* Collaborate with members of the team to build balanced, performant, and maintainable technologies and code.
* Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions around the technological choices involved in building the Content Platform.
* Identify and uphold engineering standard methodologies.
* Champion Blizzard Entertainment's core values.

Requirements

* A degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
* 3+ years experience working on large-scale Node.js or Java applications.
* Experience shipping multiple web applications.
* Experience working with build pipelines, such as Jenkins.
* Strong analytical problem-solving skills.
* Architectural experience crafting highly-scalable REST APIs.
* Experience with using containerization in production applications, such as Docker.
* Operational experience with public cloud, such as AWS.

Pluses

* A proven understanding of standard methodologies and techniques in web scalability, performance, and security
* Experience writing JavaScript applications with Typescript
* Experience with React.js and Redux
* Experience writing Java applications with the Spring Framework
* Understanding and experience with container orchestration & management platforms, such as Kubernetes
* Real passion for Blizzard games is a huge plus