Senior Game Security Engineer (Temp) - Anti-cheat

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
• Conduct 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 in 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..