Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Electronic Arts | Vancouver, BC (Hybrid) or Remote (North America) May Be Possible

Electronic Arts is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Security Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team (SPEAR).

SPEAR builds and operates the systems that protect EA’s games and players. This includes the Javelin anti-cheat platform, security infrastructure, and real-time detection systems operating at global scale.

As a Senior SRE, you will design and operate reliable, scalable, and secure systems that support millions of players, while helping ensure fair and safe gameplay across EA titles.

• Architect, develop, test, deploy, and maintain highly available anti-cheat and security platforms for games played by millions of global players
• Implement monitoring and alerting to verify functionality, performance, and costing
• Ensure reliability and performance of real-time detection and enforcement systems
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
• Build automation to reduce operational toil and improve system resilience
• Create and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational documentation
• Support a great player experience by participating in live service support and incident response
• Share on‑call responsibilities with other engineers, and support critical releases after normal business hours when needed
• Collaborate with world-class engineers across platform, game, and security teams
• Utilize security best practices and original techniques to keep player data secure, prevent cheating, and promote fair play

• 6+ years in SRE, Dev Ops, Infrastructure, or Security Engineering
• Strong scripting skills (Python, bash, Power Shell, or similar)
• Experience running production systems at scale
• Hands‑on experience operating and troubleshooting both Linux and Windows
• Deep experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Strong experience with Terraform‑based infrastructure
• Hands‑on experience with Open Search or Elasticsearch for logging, observability, or analytics at scale
• Background in high‑scale distributed systems or real‑time data pipelines
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response
• Familiarity with identity systems (OIDC) and secrets management (Vault)

• Infrastructure & Platform
  • Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Helm
  • Operate Kubernetes platforms on EKS
  • Work with core AWS services including S3, SQS, IAM, and Route
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  • Work with distributed data systems such as Redis or Valkey for caching and high‑throughput workloads
  • Use tools like kubectl and Lens for cluster operations
• Security & Reliability
  • Design secure systems using OIDC‑based identity and IAM best practices
  • Manage secrets with Hashi Corp Vault
  • Support certificate lifecycle and cryptographic assets using Venafi
• Observability
  • Build and maintain observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Open Search, Elasticsearch, ELK, Datadog, and Open Telemetry
• CI/CD
  • Git Lab pipelines
• Experience
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • Experience with anti‑cheat, security, fraud detection, or abuse prevention systems
  • Experience in gaming or player‑facing platforms
  • Coding and debugging experience in Rust

• Work on systems that directly protect millions of players
• Help shape the future of anti‑cheat and game security at scale
• Build highly impactful systems used across EA’s global ecosystem

Pay Transparency – North America

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$114,300 - $156,200 CAD
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane) *$122,300 - $158,500 USD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

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