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Senior Software Engineer

11 Hours ago • 3 Years + • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Niantic's Security Engineering Team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain custom security infrastructure. Responsibilities include collaborating with Security Analysts and Platform Software engineers on requirements, designing and implementing efficient solutions, supporting legacy projects, leading initiatives to enhance system quality, participating in code reviews, and ensuring system uptime. The role involves securing games against cheaters, monitoring cloud projects, and exploring AI's role in security. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS), and a demonstrated interest in information security. The position is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Must have:
  • 3+ years building performant applications
  • Proficiency in Java, C++, Go, or Javascript
  • Experience with data storage technologies (PostgreSQL, etc.)
  • Cloud hosting and orchestration experience (Kubernetes)
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Interest in information security
  • Large-scale distributed systems experience
  • ML dataset preparation/model training experience
  • Anti-cheat system development experience
  • Experience with code protection platforms

Job Details

Niantic's Security Engineering Team seeks a software engineer to build and maintain custom security infrastructure. We are a new and growing part of the Security team, which is responsible for anti-cheat operations, cloud security monitoring, and corporate network protection.

Do you enjoy a variety of software engineering challenges?

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer, and you'll reinforce our security infrastructure through both greenfield and incremental projects. Challenges abound, from securing our games against cheaters, to monitoring our cloud projects for insecure configurations, to exploring where AI is most useful as a security tool. If you are self-motivated, adept at solving complex problems, and focused on information security, we need your skills to protect Niantic's data, our user's data, and to help maintain an equitable gaming environment.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Security Analysts and Platform Software engineers on requirements, then design and implement efficient, reliable solutions.
  • Ongoing support for legacy projects, identifying areas for improvement. Lead initiatives to enhance system quality and reliability.
  • Participate in code reviews, write unit tests, extensive problem solving and maintain up-time for live systems.
  • Evaluate designs for scalability and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
  • Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Thursday

Qualifications

  • MS in Computer Science, or other STEM degree, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience building performant applications or backend systems.
  • Accomplished programmer in at least one of: Java, C++, Golang, Javascript.
  • Proficient in at least one data storage technology such as PostgreSQL, Spanner, BigQuery.
  • Experience with cloud hosting providers, such as Google Cloud, Azure, or AWS, and orchestration environments such as Kubernetes.
  • Experience working on multi-functional teams with an ability to communicate through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions within a hybrid work environment.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.

Tell us if you have...

  • A demonstrated interest in one or more aspects of information security.
  • Large scale distributed systems experience, especially on networked multiplayer games.
  • Experience with ML dataset preparation and/or model training.
  • Experience with developing and maintaining anti-cheat systems, in the desktop or mobile gaming industry.
  • In-depth experience working with powerful (Java, C++, C#, Bitcode) code protection platforms such as Metaforic, Strong Codes, Proguard, etc…

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

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About The Company

Niantic inspires people to explore the world, together. Our mission is to use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. Originally formed at Google in 2011, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zurich. 

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