Senior Software Engineer, FiveM

Overview

In this role you join Rockstar’s Creator Platform Team in Leeds to support low-level game tech used by community-created content platforms. You will help maintain, improve, and scale code for FiveM and RedM, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable tools and services. You’ll tackle complex, performance-sensitive challenges “under the hood” of modern games and contribute to a platform that empowers creators. This is an opportunity to shape how players build and share varied game experiences within a large, creative studio culture.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve codebases with high quality, stability, and efficiency in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Coordinate release processes across branches with production and engineering for quality readiness
• Identify, prioritize, and resolve critical issues to maintain system stability
• Drive release planning, deployment, and rollback procedures
• Enhance build, test, and release automation pipelines to improve workflows and deployment reliability
• Monitor platform health, performance metrics and KPIs post-release to drive continuous improvement
• Collaborate with Creator Platform and broader Rockstar teams to develop robust solutions for complex software challenges

Key requirements

• 5+ years of experience on a software development team using C++
• Strong understanding of computing fundamentals
• Ability to manage large code bases and assess risk of changes
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills in C++
• Understanding of memory layout considerations related to padding and cache efficiency
• Analytical skills for measuring system performance and memory use, with good communication to propose solutions
• Experience with source control workflows (branch management, code integration, conflict resolution)
• Proficiency with GitLab and/or GitHub including CI/CD systems
• Ability to collaborate positively with other departments across Rockstar studios

• collaboration across departments
• problem-solving mindset
• clear communication
• C++
• memory layout optimization
• debugging and performance analysis

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