Expert Engineer, Security - Central Technology

XBOX Media Solutions, formerly known as Activision Blizzard Media, is seeking an Expert Engineer for their Ricochet team to enhance game security for the Call of Duty franchise. The role involves designing and implementing advanced anti-cheat technologies and collaborating with multiple teams to ensure fair gameplay.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement advanced anti-cheat technologies to stay ahead of emerging threats
• Analyze, update, and enhance existing protection frameworks to maintain top-tier security
• Investigate, develop, and deploy cheat detection mechanisms that keep gameplay fair and fun
• Work closely with engineers across multiple teams to ensure seamless integration and performance

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant professional software development experience
• Proven experience working on large-scale complex systems
• Deep familiarity with C++ codebases and refactoring
• Experience working in an engineering organization with a focus on CI/CD, scalability, and automation
• Expertise in debugging, optimization and performance tuning
• Advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Strong passion for delivering high-quality products
• Curiosity and drive to understand how systems work under the hood, break them down, analyze their behavior, and improve them
• Passion for low-level systems work, including comfort reading and debugging compiled code at the assembly level
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience working on the internals of a multi-player game engine
• Experience in reverse engineering software analysis
• DevOps experience
• Background in Mathematics and/or cryptography
• Deep understanding of C++ compilation, linking, and toolchains, including diagnosing compiler and linker failures and optimizing build performance
• Deep understanding or hands-on experience in the anti-cheat domain