Lead C/C++ Backend Engineer – Large-Scale Systems

Scientific Games, LLC; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Games, LLC in Alpharetta seeks an Advanced Software Engineer to design, code and debug high‑reliability backend systems for lottery and iGaming platforms. You will mentor teammates, lead technical initiatives and contribute to complex transaction processing software critical to gaming operations.

The role requires 10+ years of programming experience, strong C/C++ on Linux, multi‑threaded design, and a solid understanding of software architecture and data serialization.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years of programming experience on large-scale transaction processing systems.
• Procedural development in C on Linux; low-level programming and debugging in C/C++.
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns and architecture.
• Experience with shared memory, memory mapping and data serialization.
• Proficiency with Bash and Unix toolchain, and version control systems.
• Multi-threaded development experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, code and debug source code and scripts.
• Document, suggest and design solutions from requirements.
• Participate in requirements gathering for development projects.
• Participate in code reviews as needed.
• Support production lottery systems as an engineering expert when issues arise.
• Adhere to state background checks and security requirements.
• Travel up to 10% or less.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

C on Linux

C/C++

Multi-threaded development

Data structures & binary serialization

Unix tools (awk sed etc)

Version control systems

Software design patterns

Memory mapping

Procedural programming

OpenSSL experience

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

gSOAP

PostgreSQL

Java

Ruby

TCP/IP sockets

Job description

Scientific Games, LLC in Alpharetta seeks an Advanced Software Engineer to design, code and debug high‑reliability backend systems for lottery and iGaming platforms. You will mentor teammates, lead technical initiatives and contribute to complex transaction processing software critical to gaming operations.

The role requires 10+ years of programming experience, strong C/C++ on Linux, multi‑threaded design, and a solid understanding of software architecture and data serialization.