About the position
Soldiers, scientists, adventurers, oddities… engineers! We are the Overwatch team, passionate gamers at heart. We're looking for a new hero to help us make Overwatch 2 - the globe-spanning sequel to Blizzard Entertainment's acclaimed team-based game. We are seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced Lead Server Features Engineer who shares our values: We take responsibility for delivering our work, we collaborate constantly, helping each other to be successful, we continuously improve our knowledge, workflows and processes, we communicate openly, calling out issues, opportunities, and sharing feedback, we have integrity, maintain confidentiality, and share a sense of ownership in our success, and we have passion for the game, our players, quality work, and technology.
Responsibilities
- Provide Technical Direction: Guide server features engineers in developing innovative solutions to support the vision of our design team.
- Personnel Management: Oversee server feature engineers, including task assignment, performance evaluation, and career development.
- Engineering Leadership: Take an active role in team leadership, representing the server engineers in interdisciplinary discussions and decisions.
- Task and Schedule Management: Collaborate with other leads and producers to establish tasks, schedules, and priorities, ensuring projects are completed on time and to the highest standards.
- Relationship Management: Maintain effective and productive relationships with key internal partners, facilitating clear communication and collaboration across departments.
- Continuous Improvement: Own and drive the learning processes for the server engineering team, identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices.
Requirements
- 12 + years’ experience in game programming, including experience working on at least one AAA shipped title (or a mix of work experience and education)
- Strong C++ programming skills
- Experience building metagame features for a networked multiplayer game
- Experience working on and maintaining a live service game
- Understanding of distributed systems
- Comfortable working within and adding to an established codebase
- Previous leadership experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Nice-to-haves
- A degree in computer science, or a related field
- Passion for server and/or networking technology
- Passion for playing and making video games
- Passion for learning and improvement
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job
