IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer (C++)

Rockstar Games

Edinburgh · City of Edinburgh · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will reinforce Rockstar’s online environments by building and refining anti-cheat, anti-tamper, and anti-piracy measures. You’ll work within the Core Security team to protect players, employees, and intellectual property, collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate secure solutions into games. You will tackle vulnerabilities, analyze performance, and ensure high-quality cross-platform software. This position offers a chance to influence the security of celebrated titles from a premier studio.

Responsibilities
  • Create and innovate security solutions to protect products from vulnerabilities
  • Research and implement anti-tamper and anti-cheat technologies
  • Debug issues related to obfuscation and anti-tamper mechanisms
  • Profile protected and unprotected code for performance targets
  • Follow SDLC to integrate security into game team operations
  • Test cross-platform software to ensure quality
Key requirements
  • 7+ years of experience in a software/security development team using C++
  • Experience with security and/or game development
  • Excellent problem-solving with debugging C++ code
  • Analytical skills for measuring system performance and memory use; good communication
  • Ability to drive objectives from ideation to execution
  • Problem-solving orientation
  • Strong communication skills
  • Independent initiative
  • C++
  • security engineering
  • anti-cheat technologies

Reference: WJ-747_30139632

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