Software Engineer, Payment Systems #140005K | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Software Engineer, Payment Systems #140005K | Blizzard Entertainment | Irvine, California, United States

Software Engineer, Payment Systems

Battle.net

Office: Irvine, California, United States

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Can you glance at a one thousand line query and know exactly what’s wrong with it? Are you a software engineer by trade with solid middle tier development experience and amazing database skills?

Do you sometimes wonder why Thrall became a hippy, or why a dragon would need a rocket pack to fly? Then maybe we should talk.

Blizzard entertainment is looking for a talented software engineer to join their Battle.net division. You will be tasked with developing and maintaining one of the gaming world’s most important user, payment, and billing databases.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and prioritize complex feature requests.
• Design future-proof scalable data models for mission critical applications and databases.
• Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot performance across all tiers.
• Collaborate with multiple development teams ensuring proper full stack designs.
• Perform routine code reviews and identify security, and / or scalability issues with code.
• Continually refactor database schemas to increase performance and adapt to changing requirements.
• Respond to production issues in a timely manner.

Requirements

• A passion for Blizzard games
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Solid programming experience including Java, C#, or C++
• Extensive experience with many or all aspects of RDBMS implementation
• Extensive experience with data modeling
• Experience with database languages (PL-SQL / T-SQL)
• Experience with data mining and reporting
• Able to work in a high-risk, fast-paced environment
• Able to learn and apply new knowledge quickly

Pluses

• Experience with billing and payment systems
• Experience with integrating third party payment providers

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
• Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
• What games you are currently playing

**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.

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

 

 

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