Software Engineer

Rockstar Games; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rockstar Games in Leeds, England, is seeking a Software Engineer with strong C++ experience to support low-level technology across our creator platforms, including FiveM and RedM. You will join a team shaping complex software systems in a high-performance, in-office environment.

The role emphasizes debugging efficiency, code quality, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable releases. This permanent position is based at Rockstar's Leeds studio.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience on a software development team using C++.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with an emphasis on debugging C++ code.
• Experience with source control workflows, including branch management, code integration, conflict resolution, and maintaining stable development practices.
• Proficient with GitLab and/or GitHub, including their CI/CD systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve existing and new codebases, ensuring high standards of quality, stability, and efficiency in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Support software release processes across multiple branches, coordinating with production and engineering teams to ensure readiness and a high standard of quality.
• Help identify, prioritize, and resolve critical issues, coordinating timely fixes while maintaining overall system stability.
• Drive release planning, deployment, and rollback procedures.
• Maintain and enhance build, test, and release automation pipelines to improve development workflows and deployment reliability.
• Monitor platform health, performance metrics and operational KPIs post-release, helping drive issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Work across Creator Platform and broader Rockstar development teams to develop robust solutions for complex software challenges.

Skills

C++ expertise

Problem solving

CI/CD

Codebase management

Memory/layout optimization

Performance analytics

GitLab/GitHub

Cross-functional collaboration

UGC/creator platforms

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Job description

• We create technology, tools, and solutions to enhance the creator experience and empower our community to create and share any experience imaginable., Maintain and improve existing and new codebases, ensuring high standards of quality, stability, and efficiency in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Support software release processes across multiple branches, coordinating with production and engineering teams to ensure readiness and a high standard of quality.
• Help identify, prioritize, and resolve critical issues, coordinating timely fixes while maintaining overall system stability.
• Drive release planning, deployment, and rollback procedures.
• Maintain and enhance build, test, and release automation pipelines to improve development workflows and deployment reliability.
• Monitor platform health, performance metrics and operational KPIs post-release, helping drive issue resolution and continuous improvement.
• Work across Creator Platform and broader Rockstar development teams to develop robust solutions for complex software challenges.
  5+ years of experience on a software development team using C++.
• An understanding of computing fundamentals and related terminology.
• Ability to manage large code bases with variety of different areas, with an understanding of risk associated with proposed changes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with an emphasis on debugging C++ code.
• Understanding of memory layout considerations as related to padding and cache efficiency.
• Analytical skills geared towards the measurement of system performance, memory use, etc., plus the communication skills needed to generate solutions.
• Experience with source control workflows, including branch management, code integration, conflict resolution, and maintaining stable development practices.
• Proficient with GitLab and/or GitHub, including their CI/CD systems.
• Ability to collaborate positively with other departments across Rockstar studios, Self-motivated, enthusiastic/passionate about games and curious about how things work.
• Experience with or interest in UGC.
• Experience with security engineering.
• Experience optimizing complex programs.
• Experience with crash dumps.
• Experience in developing C++ applications for multiple runtime environments.
  At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences.

Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry. Rockstar is on the lookout for a talented Software Engineer who possesses a strong interest in all the low-level technology that makes a modern video game tick to support the Cfx.re creator platforms, including FiveM and RedM. As a member of our team, you will need a critical and creative eye capable of putting forth innovative solutions to complex problems. If you like to understand how things really work "under the hood" of your favorite games, we'd love to hear from you. This is a full-time, permanent and in-office position based in Rockstar's unique game development studio in the heart of Leeds, England.