Arbetsbeskrivning

As a Backend Engineer in the Security team at Embark, you will be an integral part of a highly creative game team focused on building data infrastructure, backend components, and tools to power our anti-cheat efforts.

You will play an important role in securing the success of Embark by enabling the effective execution of our various preventive and detective anti-cheat operations. You’ll be part of a small and passionate team with an end-to-end mission; to ensure a fair and fun experience for our players. You’ll collaborate with the rest of the game teams and studio to understand and educate about the anti-cheat perspective.

The anti-cheat tools and infrastructure span over several services, UIs and technologies, and as such you will be expected to work independently across different domains and disciplines to solve the problems at hand, learning as you go. This is likely something you enjoy.

Some examples of things we’re working on are analytic tools, detection rules, and telemetry infrastructure, authentication. Some of the technologies we use to make all of those are Go, Python, SQL, C++, GCP, Bazel, Terraform, Kubernetes, BigQuery, Google Spanner.

Example of responsibilities

• Collaborate and work closely with fellow software engineers and game developers
• Build and improve services, features and tools for anti-cheat operations
• Continuously improve our engineering practices and automate existing workflows to make sure our services are easy to deploy, scale and maintain
• Make sure your code adds a great amount of value to your colleagues

We would love if you have

• A creative and curious mind
• Solid experience with the technologies we use such as Go, Python, SQL and the GCP stack
• Experience building frontends and backends, mainly internal data-driven tools
• Experience deploying and maintaining services on a cloud infrastructure
• An analytical mindset, self-drive and a can-do attitude to drive projects from idea to product
• Background in the gaming industry or other consumer-facing products
• A passion for games, interactive experiences and new technologies
• Professional English communication skills.

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together. We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability. Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table. Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, feel free to apply to us via our "Open Application."