Lead Software Engineer, Production Technology

Team Name:

Battle.net & Online Products

Job Title:

Lead Software Engineer, Production Technology

Requisition ID:

R025445

Job Description:

Blizzard prides itself on continuing to support the historic games that made us who we are today. Keeping these games running as technology marches forward takes effort, and we need a hero to own and direct that effort. 

 

Whether it's battling the Zerg in the Koprulu sector or defeating your opponents in the Nexus, these treasured classics need a versatile champion to maintain, shape, and advance the technology underpinning these games. You should be spec'd into engineering talents, with a passion for leadership and planning, and armed with a hunger to use modern technology to create sustainable solutions. 

 

So, if you like merging technology with player experience, working with a small team and look forward to challenges that will create millions of new adventures for our players, we would love to hear from you. 

 

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

 

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Prod Tech org at Blizzard, you may find yourself… 

• Demonstrating your technical experience to coordinate and improve impact across several groups of cross-disciplined engineers while minimizing duplicated efforts 

• Evaluating the technical challenges of our partner teams and applying your experience to help lead the assembled team(s) to provide strong value-driven solutions. 

• Mentoring, developing, and inspiring, as well as learning from, the engineers that report to you 

• Continuously working with Prod Tech leadership, as well as the business as a whole, to make our team a top-tier destination for the most dedicated engineers in the industry 

• Sharing ideas and technology to partner teams throughout Blizzard in a clear and effective way 

• Working with stakeholders to drive a blameless culture around incident management 

 

Minimum Requirements: 

• 3+ years of managing direct reports
   

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience 

• Love to solve novel and exciting problems 

• Thrive on making big-picture impact and continuously looking for exciting positive change 

• Measure and demonstrate improving service state and champion quality of team deliverables 

• Take pride in your team and succeeding through others 

• Are driven to nurture and develop highly effective engineers 

• Strive to be better, more hard-working, and faster tomorrow than you are today 

• Seek to identify and prioritize tasks for maximum impact on sustainability and resilience of code and infrastructure 

• Possess the technical knowledge to understand the challenges facing the team 

• Like to collaborate with others to solve problems, share knowledge, and provide feedback 

• Can self-assess the needs of a system, codebase, or team, and make a case to prioritize that work 

• Enjoy maintaining the uptime of always-on, always-available live global services 

• Know when and how to say “No”