Principal Software Engineer - Security

Electronic Arts

Hybrid

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Location
Austin, TX
Posted
2 days ago

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About Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment, developing and publishing games for consoles, mobile, and PC under franchises including FIFA, Madden NFL, The Sims, Apex Legends, and Battlefield.

Electronic Arts currently has 93 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer - Security

As Principal Software Engineer Security at Electronic Arts in Austin, Texas, you will report to the Director of Development Security and collaborate with the Developer Security team to integrate security into software delivery at scale. Your daily responsibilities include defining technical direction for DevSecOps capabilities, designing and building automation, developer tooling, and platform services that enhance secure engineering practices, and mentoring senior engineers to promote secure CI/CD patterns across EA’s expansive ecosystem. You will work with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and modern service architectures while ensuring reliability and resilience in software delivery. This role requires 8+ years of experience in large-scale environments, expertise in CI/CD systems, source control workflows, build pipelines, deployment patterns, and software supply chain security concepts like SBOMs and artifact management.

What you'll do

  • Define technical direction for DevSecOps capabilities, improving secure software delivery.
  • Design and build security automation, developer tooling, and platform services.
  • Lead architectural decisions and create reference implementations balancing security and reliability.
  • Mentor senior engineers and promote secure CI/CD patterns across the organization.
  • Help adopt scalable security practices throughout EA's engineering teams.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in senior or principal roles related to software, security, platform, SRE, or DevSecOps engineering.
  • Proven track record designing and operating production systems for secure software delivery at scale.
  • Expertise with CI/CD systems, source control workflows, build pipelines, deployment patterns, and software supply chain security concepts.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, containerized environments (Kubernetes), Infrastructure-as-Code, and modern service architectures.

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