Activision

Principal Engineer, Security – Game Protection

Activision

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Sherman OaksCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $154,100 - $285,084 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

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.

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Hard skills
CC++Pythonx86_64 assemblycompiler theorycode obfuscationCI/CDalgorithmsdata structuresoptimization
Soft skills
communicationteam collaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailpassion for quality