Senior Game Security Engineer (Temp) - Anti-cheat

3 Weeks ago • 6-8 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Embark Studios seeks a Senior Game Security Engineer (temporary, parental leave cover) to lead anti-cheat efforts for two key projects. Responsibilities include architectural decisions for anti-cheat services, deployment of preventative and detective tools, debugging and reverse engineering of cheats, code review for security flaws, and advancing game security products. The ideal candidate possesses strong experience with anti-cheat, Unreal Engine (C++ and AngelScript), backend technologies (Go, GCP, Kubernetes, etc.), C#, CI/CD, and data technologies (BigQuery, SQL, Python). The role requires collaboration with game and backend teams and a passion for solving complex security problems.
Must have:
  • Anti-cheat experience
  • Unreal Engine (C++, AngelScript)
  • Backend tech (Go, GCP, Kubernetes)
  • C# tool development
  • CI/CD & automation
  • Data tech (BigQuery, SQL, Python)
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Passionate colleagues

Job Details

As a Senior Game Security Engineer (Fullstack developer) at Embark your focus is on creating a safe and fair environment for our gamers. You will work in a small centralized team being responsible for everything Anti-cheat for our titles.

The role of Game Security Engineer includes driving our Anti-cheat efforts mainly for two of our projects as a starting point. You’ll be spending a lot of time building protection capabilities, identifying new risk areas, working together with game teams and backend teams and technically driving the anti-cheat. Your passion for technology and games is what is driving you to great success. By being curious and experimental you aim to solve problems in a game-changing way.

Example of responsibilities 

  • Take part and/or lead architectural decisions and designs for Anti-cheat services
  • Deploy tools and services for preventative and detective Anti-cheat capabilities in our games
  • Conducting debugging and reverse engineering on cheats and exploits
  • Review and assess client/server code to identify flaws and improvements
  • Advance game security products, keeping up with changes in our games, technology, and the attacks we face

We would love if you have

  • A creative and curious mind
  • Previous experience from working with anti-cheat is strongly preferable
  • Documented experience working in Unreal Engine with C++ and AngelScript
  • Experience in several backend technologies such as, Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spanner, OpenAPI and gRPC
  • Experience in developing tools with C#
  • Worked in an engineering organization with CI/CD, scalability, and automation
  • Experience from working in an agile environment and care about processes, development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
  • Experience in data related technologies being mainly GCP BigQuery, SQL and Python
  • Professional English communication skills.

 
This is a parental leave cover position, initially temporary with the potential for extension. 

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability.

Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table.

Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!

If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, feel free to apply to us via our "Open Application."

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About The Company

Embark Studios was founded in November 2018 by a group of Swedish game industry veterans. Today Embark Studios has more than 300 game-makers applying breakthrough technologies to reimagine how games are made and what they can become. In 2023 Embark released THE FINALS®, our first game, We have another two experiences in production — the PvPVe survival action shooter ARC Raiders® and the creative platform wim®.

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