Senior Software Engineer- Generalist (Apex Legends)

Location: Hybrid - Vancouver or Los Angeles

Reports to: Lead Software Engineer

Founded in 2010, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they’ll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. Respawn Entertainment is the Academy Award-winning studio behind Apex Legends, Titanfall, and Star Wars Jedi titles. Join us to help shape the future of one of the world’s leading live service franchises: Apex Legends.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive the development of foundational technologies and work to improve the performance and stability of Apex Legends. You will work closely with gameplay teams—engineers, designers, artists, animators, and producers—to create and maintain a wide variety of systems across our entire technical stack, from the engine to our game services backend. Ultimately, your work will help ensure every new release of the game to our players is of outstanding quality and the best experience possible.

5+ years developing and maintaining software, or equivalent game development experience.

Experience working in large, shared codebases, in games or otherwise.

Strong working knowledge of C/C++.

Proficiency in programming or scripting languages such as Python.

Experience with profiling, auditing, and optimizing software performance.

Experience debugging and supporting software running in production.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience on a live service game or other continuously operated product, including feature flags, kill switches, and staged rollouts.

Familiarity with embedded scripting languages and the boundary between engine code and game script.

Experience with content or asset build pipelines and adding automated validation to them.

Experience building developer-facing or content-creator tooling.

Experience with backend or web services and cloud infrastructure.