Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer

Summary

Join 31st Union as a Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer and play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of online gaming experiences. You will design and develop anti-cheat systems, focusing on detecting and preventing cheating behaviors across multiple platforms. Leveraging your expertise in security, system internals, and game hacking techniques, you will collaborate with engineering and security teams to create robust solutions. Your proactive approach will be key to ensuring safe and enjoyable game environments for all players. This role requires extensive experience in C++, ASM, Windows APIs, and security engineering. The position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in C++ programming and ASM, with a strong understanding of Windows APIs, Windows Kernel internals, and Windows drivers
• Proven expertise in security engineering, including experience with anti-cheat, anti-tamper, or anti-malware technologies
• Experience researching and mitigating game cheats, vulnerabilities, and exploits, with familiarity in the game cheat community and industry threats
• Experience in reverse engineering, especially for game cheats and exploits, and developing detection strategies based on reverse engineering insights
• Experience in de-virtualizing obfuscated binaries
• Ability to work efficiently in an agile development environment, respond to new threats, and iterate quickly while maintaining a high bar for security and performance

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable and performant anti-cheat technologies for a AAA multiplayer title, including systems to detect and prevent cheating behavior at both the client and server levels
• Research, invent, and stay ahead of new cheat techniques, vulnerabilities, and exploits, and implement proactive countermeasures in the game code and anti-cheat tools
• Perform penetration tests, overlook a bug bounty program and triage the findings for the game developers
• Procure and reverse engineer existing cheats, hacks, and exploits to better understand their mechanics and design new detection and prevention mechanisms
• Support the analytics team with creating telemetry based detections for cheat tools and exploits
• Support the build engineers with shift left initiatives by embedding source code scanning into the build pipeline

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in C++, Rust, or similar programming languages, specifically in security-related roles and a profound knowledge of ASM
• Experience with or deep familiarity with game cheat development and the security research community
• 3+ years of experience working with Windows internals, including driver development and kernel-level security
• 3+ years of experience working with UE (esp. Blueprints and Reflection System) and its security impact on the game binaries
• Experience with Linux OS development, mobile game security, or reverse engineering mobile game cheats is a bonus
• Proven history of shipping Windows drivers and creating scalable anti-cheat technologies
• Experience with obfuscation techniques, encryption, or developing countermeasures for anti-tamper protections

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Bonus and/or equity awards