Job Title: Expert Software Engineer
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Expert Software Engineer to join our team at Activision.
Our team specializes in creating and operating accounts and authorization services for games, particularly with the Call of Duty franchise. Our goal is to manage players' identities safely and securely.
As an Expert Software Engineer on our team, you will provide deep expertise, technical direction, and deliver new features in the accounts and account security domain. We're looking for someone passionate about the intersection of highly scalable systems, security, and gaming.
Your Responsibilities
* Design and build highly-scalable services using open source technologies to enable crucial player-to-player interactions.
* Work on improving and extending the Demonware services for Accounts, Identity Management, and Privacy tooling.
* Guide our technical direction and standards with engineers on the team and across Demonware.
* Contribute to R&D efforts and technical decision-making around Demonware's online services and tech stack.
You will also design and implement features, run services, and support partner game studios in integrating features into our current and future games. Additionally, you will own, operate, and support the live services that you develop and provide technical mentorship to junior team members.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* 12+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in developing highly scalable online services for millions of users.
* Excellent programming skills, preferably in Python and/or C++, but we're open to other similar languages (Java, C#, Go, Rust, etc.).
* Prior professional experience working on services related to accounts, authentication, and/or identity management.
* Experience with authentication and authorization protocols, as well as identity management systems.
* Experience defining and delivering technical solutions to technical users.
* Experience working with Linux/Unix.
Extra points if you have experience with large-scale problems and handling millions of connections, continuous integration, and agile methodologies, interest in travel to assist on-site integration at game studios in various global locations, and be able to accommodate a flexible work schedule including being on-call.