Senior Software Engineer, FiveM

Responsibilities

• ▹Maintain and improve existing and new codebases, ensuring high standards of quality, stability and efficiency in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• ▹Support software release processes across multiple branches, coordinating with production and engineering teams to ensure readiness and quality
• ▹Help identify, prioritize and resolve critical issues, coordinating timely fixes while maintaining overall system stability
• ▹Drive release planning, deployment and rollback procedures
• ▹Maintain and enhance build, test and release automation pipelines to improve development workflows and deployment reliability
• ▹Monitor platform health, performance metrics and operational KPIs post-release, helping drive issue resolution and continuous improvement
• ▹Work across the Creator Platform and broader Rockstar development teams to develop robust solutions for complex software challenges

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience on a software development team using C++
• ▹An understanding of computing fundamentals and related terminology
• ▹Ability to manage large code bases across a variety of areas, with an understanding of the risk associated with proposed changes
• ▹Excellent problem-solving skills with an emphasis on debugging C++ code
• ▹Understanding of memory layout considerations related to padding and cache efficiency
• ▹Analytical skills geared towards measuring system performance and memory use
• ▹Experience with source control workflows, including branch management, code integration and conflict resolution
• ▹Proficient with GitLab and/or GitHub, including their CI/CD systems

Nice to have

• ▹Self-motivated, enthusiastic about games and curious about how things work
• ▹Experience with or interest in UGC (user-generated content)
• ▹Experience with security engineering
• ▹Experience optimizing complex programs
• ▹Experience with crash dumps
• ▹Experience developing C++ applications for multiple runtime environments

Soft skills

About the company

Rockstar Games creates world-class entertainment experiences. The Rockstar Creator Platform Team delivers a technology platform that enables players to experience community-created content on fully customized dedicated servers, where creators can develop their own game modes and other modifications in a variety of scripting languages; the team builds technology, tools and solutions to enhance the creator experience.