
Principal Engineer, Security – Game Protection
Activision
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Sherman Oaks • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $154,100 - $285,084 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
- 15+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong passion for delivering high-quality products
- Proven experience architecting and implementing multiple versions of large-scale applications or services that span complex systems
- Proficiency in C/C++ and Python
- Ability to read and write x86_64 assembly
- Knowledge of compiler theory and code obfuscation techniques
- Experience working in an engineering organization with a focus on CI/CD, scalability, and automation
- Advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures
- Expertise in optimization and debugging at scale
- Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
Benefits
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
CC++Pythonx86_64 assemblycompiler theorycode obfuscationCI/CDalgorithmsdata structuresoptimization
Soft skills
communicationteam collaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailpassion for quality