Senior Software Engineer, C++ #140009U | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Software Engineer, C++ #140009U | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Senior Software Engineer, C++

Battle.net

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a passionate and skilled senior software engineer to open the portals between gamers’ hearts and minds. We seek to inspire past, current, and next generation minds through the creation of the world’s best online communication tools to level up all of our players while they engage in Blizzard’s legendary fantasy worlds.

  

Battle.net has teams that:

• Produce the Battle.net application, which allows players to launch, patch, get news about their favorite Blizzard games, and try new ones.
• Create the game services that allow our players to login, meet up with friends, or find new ones to play against.
• Allow the seamless downloading and updating of the many games and upgrades that Blizzard provides on a regular basis.
• Make the tools to monitor and graph the usage of the millions of players that play every day to ensure the best play experience possible.

Do you have communications skills bordering on telepathy, ability to switch gears like a racecar driver, and passion to effect direction like a pair of war drums? Does working on the world’s most used, most demanding games services,  and tools appeal to your inner geek?

Responsibilities

• Development of new software features for Battle.net.
• Coaching of junior software engineers.

Requirements:

• Mastery of C++
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Passion and belief in Blizzard’s core values

Pluses:

• Distributed system experience
• RDBMS development experience
• Architecture (cloud, client / server) experience
• Qt
• Linux systems programming
• Scripting language experience (e.g. Python, Lua)
• Low-level network knowledge and diagnosis including packet capture (e.g. tcpdump, wireshark), routing, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, and NAT busting

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Demo or sample required, design questions, etc.
• Cover Letter

**Only submittals with all three will be considered.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and its affiliated companies is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. 

 

 

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