SDE II, REALM

Are you an experienced engineer ready to take on greater technical ownership and impact

Do you want to build products that solve real developer pain points and improve productivity across the organization

The Developer Experience Engineering team is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design and deliver features that enhance efficiency improve tech hygiene and drive operational excellence.

Key job responsibilities
Own Technical Delivery
- Design and implement significant features for developer productivity tools and automation platforms
- Take end-to-end ownership of components within larger systems from design through deployment and operations
- Write high-quality maintainable code that scales to support hundreds of users
- Build data pipelines and visualization components that provide actionable insights into engineering metrics
- Contribute to architectural decisions for your teams products
Grow Your Technical Skills

- Participate in design reviews and learn system architecture from senior engineers and Principal Engineers
- Develop expertise in AWS services distributed systems and operational excellence
- Gain experience with data analytics metrics platforms and developer tooling
- Learn to balance technical tradeoffs and make pragmatic engineering decisions
- Build skills in cross-functional collaboration and technical communication
Collaborate and Influence
- Work with partner teams to understand their pain points and gather detailed requirements
- Collaborate with SDE 1s and provide technical guidance on implementation approaches
- Partner with senior engineers to break down complex problems and deliver iteratively
- Participate in code reviews both giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Help evangelize your teams products and drive adoption across the organization
Operational Ownership
- Monitor and maintain the health of the systems you build
- Respond to operational issues and implement fixes
- Use metrics and data to identify improvement opportunities
- Contribute to on-call rotation and incident response

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development Release or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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