At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead GPU fleet operations and build innovative infrastructure solutions.
- Company: Join Electronic Arts, a leader in next-level entertainment experiences.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous vacation, health coverage, and family leave.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with opportunities for growth and creativity.
- Why this job: Make an impact in gaming by enabling creative expression through technology.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in production infrastructure with AWS expertise.
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. At EA, we believe games are powerful because they bring together multiple ways people engage: play, watch, create, and connect. Our focus is on enabling more players to participate in creative expression by making creation easier, safer, and more rewarding.
As Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will own the GPU fleet our researchers train on including capacity, scheduling, diagnostics, and support. You will set technical direction for GPU operations and infrastructure architecture. You will additionally lead Infrastructure as Code setup, granting permissions, and debugging infrastructure problems. This is a hybrid role, working three days per week in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver. You will report to the Head of Data and Infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- You will own GPU fleet operations across our AWS estate.
- You will build the scheduling layer from zero.
- You will diagnose GPU and node failures fast and completely and drive hardware evidence and replacement through AWS support and capacity-block channels.
- You will run researcher support as a first-class product including holding office hours, owning the support channel, and driving the recurring causes out of existence with self-service tooling, preflight checks, and documentation.
- You will instrument the fleet including utilization, queue depth, job success rate, and cost per experiment metrics.
- You will partner with our external compute and lab partnerships as a technical contact, and with EA's central infrastructure groups on shared services and escalation.
- You will author runbooks, decision records, and onboarding docs.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience operating production infrastructure, with deep, current, hands-on AWS depth — EC2 GPU fleets, EKS, IAM and cross-account security, VPC and networking, S3 and FSx.
- Experience scheduling, diagnosing, and managing GPUs in AWS specifically.
- Experience operating GPU fleets at 1000+ GPU scale.
- Expertise in scripting and automation with Python, PowerShell, bash, or equivalent.
- Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).
- Familiarity with a GPU scheduling or orchestration layer (like Slurm, Kubernetes with Kueue or Volcano, Ray, dStack or SkyPilot).
- Observability practice including Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent.
Pay Transparency - North America
Compensation And Benefits
Pay ranges vary by location:
- British Columbia: $169,500 - $242,600 CAD
- California: $193,100 - $296,500 USD
In Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Développeur.se principal.e de l’infrastructure / Lead Infrastructure Developer in Vancouver employer: Electronic Arts (EA)
At Electronic Arts, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to push the boundaries of gaming technology. As a Technical Director in our vibrant studio, you will have access to cutting-edge resources and collaborative teams, ensuring your professional growth while contributing to groundbreaking projects. Located in a hub of creativity and technology, we offer competitive benefits and a supportive environment that values diversity and encourages continuous learning.