Lead Software Engineer II (Performance)

LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER II, PERFORMANCE (BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT)

🕹 AAA Game
🧠 Lead
💰 $121,500–224,880/year
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote / 👔 Irvine, California, USA 🇺🇸

🦄 Description
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a Senior Software Engineer II, Performance to join the team developing a new unannounced AAA game on Unreal Engine 5.

In this role, you will act as a key technical leader responsible for performance, reliability, and multi-platform readiness across runtime systems and supporting infrastructure. You will work closely with gameplay, engine, tools, design, art, and tech art teams to identify bottlenecks, improve workflows, and ensure the game meets quality and performance targets on PC and consoles.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Lead performance strategy and optimization efforts across UE5 runtime systems
• Profile, diagnose, and optimize CPU, GPU, memory, streaming, and I/O performance
• Establish performance budgets, guardrails, and regression prevention practices
• Design and implement performance tooling, reporting systems, and automation solutions
• Improve platform readiness across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation
• Define best practices for observability, monitoring, and debugging
• Communicate performance findings and recommendations across teams
• Drive cross-team technical initiatives
• Conduct design reviews and code reviews
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence
• Collaborate with design, art, and tech art teams to ensure performance standards are met

📚 Required Skills
• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent
• Strong C++ expertise
• Familiarity with C#
• Proven experience optimizing large and complex codebases
• Experience shipping at least one Unreal Engine title with responsibility for performance, platform readiness, or system reliability
• Experience developing for PC, Xbox, and/or PlayStation
• Deep understanding of CPU, GPU, memory, streaming, and I/O optimization
• Strong knowledge of profiling, debugging, and performance analysis
• Experience building performance validation and automation tools
• Understanding of observability, logging, metrics, and tracing systems
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience with deployment systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure automation knowledge
• Release workflow experience
• Passion for games and game development

🍪 What we offer
• Opportunity to work on a new AAA Unreal Engine 5 project
• Hybrid work format
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Health savings and reimbursement accounts
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company matching
• Tuition reimbursement
• Charitable donation matching
• Paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, parental leave, and bereavement leave
• Mental health and wellbeing programs
• Fitness programs
• Free and discounted games
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Relocation assistance where applicable
• Performance-based incentive opportunities
• Work alongside world-class game developers

🌐 Vacancy link

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