Job Title:
Senior Data Reliability Engineer - Central Technology

Requisition ID:
R027350

Job Description:

Your Mission

Call of Duty is one of the most iconic and successful video game franchises in the world, delivering unforgettable experiences to millions of players every day. At the heart of that experience is fair play-and that's where the Ricochet Anti-Cheat team comes in.

Our mission is to detect and eliminate cheating quickly and at scale, ensuring every player enjoys a level playing field. As a Senior Data Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and operating the data systems that power Call of Duty Anti-Cheat, processing petabytes of game telemetry with high reliability, integrity, and trust.

What you bring to the table

You will design, deploy, and operate large-scale, reliable data systems that support telemetry ingestion, enrichment, and analytics for Anti-Cheat. Working closely with Machine Learning, Security, and Game Engineering teams, you'll help enable automated data pipelines-from ingest to insight-that directly inform anti-cheat actions in production.

This role blends data engineering, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. You'll define GitOps-based workflows for securely deploying data pipelines and application stacks, build deep observability into everything you own, and ensure the accuracy and validity of data that Anti-Cheat systems depend on.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Create the ML Data pipeline used for our models including building the ML templates that are used, the observability of our models, the metrics and KPIs used to monitor their efficacy, and the automated retraining required as the data drifts.
• Design and operate large-scale, highly-available data pipelines and platforms for high-volume game telemetry
• Ensure the integrity, trustworthiness, and quality of Anti-Cheat data
• Partner closely with Machine Learning teams to support batch, streaming, online inference workflows, automated testing of ML artifacts, and observability and maintenance of automated deployment pipelines
• Define and maintain GitOps workflows for secure, automated testing, integration, and deployment
• Build comprehensive observability (metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts) into data pipelines and services
• Own operational excellence, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems
• Contribute to deployment and release strategies such as canary, blue/green, and shadow deployments

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of programming experience
• Extensive experience working in Python; familiarity with Go
• Strong experience with data technologies such as SQL, Spark, and Airflow
• Hands-on experience building observability systems using tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana
• Experience with dashboarding and alerting for production systems
• Secure automation of testing and deployments using GitHub Actions / Workflows (GitOps)
• Experience with Linux system administration in production environments
• Cloud-native deployment experience using Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD
• Experience supporting model deployments (batch and online APIs); bonus for streaming or near-real-time systems

Knowledge & Skills

• Master's degree or equivalent professional experience in Data Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
• Familiarity with production release strategies including canary, blue/green, and shadow deployments

Key Attributes

• Ability to communicate clearly with both engineers and non-technical partners, translating ambiguous needs into actionable technical designs

Extra Points

Experience

• Experience coding in Rust
• Experience with incident response and operational ownership, including leading post-mortems
• Cloud networking experience in Azure

Knowledge and Skills

• Background in security, anti-abuse, or anti-cheat data systems
• Production experience with deep learning systems, including model serving, optimization, monitoring, and retraining triggers

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, and Ireland.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our dedicated engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

The standard base pay range for this role is $91,770.00 - $194,120.00 CAD. These values reflect the expected annualized base pay range of new hires in British Columbia, Canada. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.