Plugin Moderator - RuneScape

Location: Cambridge, UK – This position can accommodate flexible working options. However, candidates must be based (or be willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our Cambridge office to be able to attend onsite as required.

Are you an experienced developer with a strong understanding of scripting and a passion for maintaining high-quality standards across community-driven content?

As a Plugin Moderator, you’ll review and support community-created plugins, ensuring they meet technical, quality, and security standards. Working across internal teams and the wider player community, you’ll help shape guidelines, improve processes, and maintain a consistent and reliable experience for players.

This is a technically focused role working at the intersection of development, tooling, and community engagement, ensuring code quality, stability, and safety across externally created content. You’ll play a key role in a brand-new plugin system, helping players enhance gameplay while protecting the integrity of the game.

What you’ll be doing:

• Review and assess community-created Lua plugins to ensure they meet technical, quality, and gameplay standards.
• Identify and prevent malicious code, data harvesting, or unauthorised gameplay interactions (e.g. botting).
• Provide structured, constructive feedback on code quality, design, and implementation to external developers.
• Work closely with community teams, designers, and engineers to define requirements and shape plugin functionality.
• Maintain and evolve community guidelines and documentation to support consistent development practices.
• Support maintenance of internal tools, systems, and workflows related to plugin review and integration.
• Track and manage tasks using established production processes, contributing to delivery across multiple initiatives.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience working with Lua and a solid foundation in programming.
• Strong understanding of code quality, debugging, and performance considerations.
• Ability to read and analyse code to identify risks or malicious intent.
• Experience using version control systems such as Git or Perforce.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and constructive feedback to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working independently with a high level of ownership.

Nice to have:

• Experience reviewing or maintaining third-party or community-created code.
• Understanding of plugin/modding ecosystems within games.
• Experience building or maintaining plugins in a games environment.
• Familiarity with RuneScape or similar titles.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
• Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Right to Work Statement

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship for this position, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

About Jagex

We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.

As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit https://www.jagex.com/ .

Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities.
Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.

Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.

Inclusion & Accessibility Statement

We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.