Expert Security Engineer

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Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Melbourne, Australia, and Toronto, Canada – we're the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and Call of Duty®: WWII. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our talented employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

As we head into decade II of development, we're focused on constantly evolving, innovating and taking risks – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With world-class audio, design, engineering and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for talented game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission:

As a Security Integration Engineer you will provide expert analysis and robustly
engineered solutions to help strengthen our titles against threats to both gameplay
feature and anti-cheating integrity. The role requires an insightful, agile, and
pragmatic approach to a rapidly changing threat landscape - balancing both long
term capability buildout and also being able to react to newly emerging threats.
This is a hands-on role, requiring strong programming and reverse-engineering
skills. Working as part of an overall engineering team effort, you would be expected
to be both hands-on working directly on protecting game features and integrity, in
addition to playing a role in a longer term technology and capability build-out.
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role
includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Strengthen security and integrity of game title features, ensuring known
exploits are corrected and potential threats are addressed.
• Be a priority resource to work side-by-side game engineers, as the
engineering support representative of the Central Technology Game Security
team.
• Perform R&D into both new techniques and technologies.
• Work closely with experts within the security team to identify the best course
of action to protect game features and implement countermeasures to known
cheats.
• Identify emerging threats, propose countermeasures, and implement
countermeasures in a timely manner. Be the game title eyes-and-ears to
report back potential issues and make recommendations for areas to
improve.
• Be a proactive part of team to monitor and measure effectiveness in anti-
cheat efforts.
• Support both engineering and security operations efforts.
• Player Profile:
• Extensive knowledge of Intel-family processor architecture, mobile processors
(such as ARM64) a plus.
• Strong C/C++ development on game titles, including some understanding of
assembly code
• Solid understanding of source control best practices and hands-on knowledge of P4.
• Reverse engineering, advanced debugging, ability to identify code
vulnerabilities and exploits.
• Be able to interact with and work directly with game engineering teams.

Extra Points:
• Knowledge of social engineering, malware, industry best practices for game
and code security.
• Security-oriented role on previously published games.
Working as part of a broader live operations or game security effort a plus.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gme403-3-145-42-94-42 in your application.