Blizzard_Ent
PC Games · Game Development
33open roles
$159kmedian advertised pay
$1.7Mlatest round · Venture round · Aug 2025 · 14 mo ago
Growinghiring pace, 65 of 100
Overview
Creators of the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series, Blizzard Entertainment is an industry-leading developer responsible for the most epic entertainment experiences, ever.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 33 open roles at Blizzard_Ent. Blizzard_Ent is headquartered in Newark, United States. It was founded in 2024. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $1.7M, announced in 2025. The median pay stated in its open roles is $152k, across 26 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 33Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Newark, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2024Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 10+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $1.7MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Venture - Series Unknown · $1.7M · Aug 22, 2025SEC Form D filing · sec.gov
- Median advertised pay
- $152kPay stated in 26 open postings
- Technologies in its job postings
- 21Named in its job postings
Official records
Funding and backers
Total raised
$1.7M
1 round on record
Latest round
$1.7M
Venture round · Aug 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
+2 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2026
Formerly STARCRAFT (starcraft.com)
Aug 22, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $1.7M · SEC Form D
2024
Founded
Aug 3, 2021
On the Hacker News front page New Leadership at Blizzard · 252 points
Feb 19, 2021
On the Hacker News front page Diablo II: Resurrected · 186 points
Nov 18, 2020
On the Hacker News front page World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon · 202 points
Oct 12, 2019
On the Hacker News front page Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament · 197 points
Jan 22, 2019
On the Hacker News front page DeepMind – StarCraft II Demonstration · 314 points
Apr 16, 2014
Released an app Hearthstone · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.2 ★
123k ratings
Hacker News stories
54
best: 314 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2025 | $1.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Overwatch AI Corp | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Leo KotilExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$159k
Typical range
$72k – $293k
Open positions
26
24
Jobs
Intern
4.2%
Junior
4.2%
Middle
4.2%
Senior
50%
Staff
20.8%
Principal
12.5%
Architect
4.2%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $72k | $72k |
| Junior | 1 | $90k | $90k |
| Middle | 1 | $165k | $165k |
| Senior | 12 | $152k | $112k – $280k |
| Staff | 5 | $184k | $137k – $229k |
| Principal | 3 | $221k | $199k – $276k |
| Architect | 1 | $293k | $293k |
Highest paying role
Associate Technical Director, World Systems - STARCRAFT | Irvine, CA
$293k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Blizzard_Ent
By role, level and city, against the market · 26 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
33
2 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
27% ▲
Games
15% ▼
Design
12% ▼
Early Careers
9%
Frontend
6% ▼
Communications
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Marketing (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Unreal Engine to stack
Oct 2026
Added C++ to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$1.7M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $1.7M | Details |
People
Leo Kotil
Executive Officer, Director
Nikita Kaeshko
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Blizzard_Ent over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
21
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
C++64%
C#29%
Python21%
JavaScript14%
Frameworks & libraries
Unreal Engine71%
Unity7%
Cloud & platforms
.NET7%
Tableau7%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
3
Busiest office
Irvine
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Newark
United States
HQ
Irvine
United States
Regional office
Irvine - Blizzard - Blizzard Way
26 open roles 27 posted in 90 days 23% engineering 10-50 est. staff $172k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Games, Design
Shanghai
China
Regional office
Shanghai - Blizzard - Room 501
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Product, Analytics, Marketing
London
United Kingdom
London - King - Ampersand
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for HR, Legal
Santa Monica
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $72k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers
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