Expert Engineer, Security

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the US, and in Canada, England, Ireland and Japan.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our talented engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Your Mission

We're looking for a talented and motivated engineer to investigate and reverse engineer cheating tools for Call of Duty, to help secure the game client and protect our players.

As an Expert Engineer supporting our anti-cheat efforts, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development, configuration, scripting, deployment and maintenance of cheating detections and mitigations. For this role, you should be able to quickly familiarize yourself with existing codebases and be able to write elegant, high performing, extensible code that works well within a collaborative low-level high-risk coding environment.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Investigate and reverse engineer cheating tools for Call of Duty to help secure the game client and its interactions with the game servers
• Apply experience with x64 assembly language, C/C++, Python, and low-level programming concepts to maintain anti-cheat tools and services in the game engine
• Build detections and mitigations to protect players against cheating
• Maintain and extend documentation on security best practices
• Collaborate with other engineers from across the business to educate and improve game security
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends and threats in the industry

Player Profile

Experience
• Production-level C/C++ experience
• Kernel-level experience with Windows and the ways exploits take advantage of the OS
• Experience with disassemblers, debuggers, and other reverse engineering tools
• Experience with static and dynamic analysis tools for multiple systems and file formats

Knowledge & Skills
• BA/BS in Computer Science and 5+ years relevant work experience within security/anti-cheat

Key Attributes
• An autonomous, problem-solving, and open-minded attitude
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with other engineers, designers, and producers
• Ideal candidate will have experience working with back-end game services

Extra Points:

Experience
• Familiarity with modern first-person shooter architectures
• Experience analyzing and decoding network traffic

Knowledge & Skills
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, performance, and multi-threaded programming techniques
• Understanding of network protocols, client/server architecture, and peer-to-peer architectures

Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $111,780.00 - $206,882.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all US locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbb6py-3-145-80-38-42 in your application.