Senior Software Engineer, Platform Technologies

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a seasoned software engineer to join our platform technologies working on core technology that will be leveraged across all Blizzard Entertainment games. This technology includes product/community launchers, installers, automated testing systems, and data distribution technology, among others. The ideal candidate will be a good communicator, be able to balance requirements against implementation, and have the ability to envision and help design workflows. This role gives an exciting opportunity to be involved on programming projects that are utilized across all current and future Blizzard Entertainment products, including World of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment offers a fun, creative and technically challenging environment with excellent compensation and a full range of benefits.

Requirements:

• 7+ years experience in software engineering in various programming languages
• 5+ years experience in C++
• Strong background in two or more of these APIs: Win32, Mach, Cocoa, BSD, Linux, sockets, or STL
• Strong background in one or more of these subjects: AI programming, Control Theory, UI design, or framework architecture
• Technical writing experience

Responsibilities:

• Mentor and monitor the development of associate-level engineers.
• Design and develop common internal systems libraries for Blizzard Entertainment tools and games.
• Design and develop systems such as patcher, installer, downloader, and launcher for all Blizzard Entertainment games.
• Provide continued development support for Blizzard Entertainment legacy games, including StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II.
• Design and develop internal automation tools such as build servers, unit test frameworks, and game testing tools.

Pluses:

• Scrum/Agile experience
• Statistical analysis experience
• Boost API experience

Please send code samples in text files as well as a cover letter, resume, and salary history in separate Word format documents to resumes@blizzard.com.

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