Expert Engineer, Security (Anti-Cheat)

Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, or Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Base pay: $124,000–$229,400 annually in the U.S.; incentive compensation may also be available.

Company

Develops technology and services supporting major video game studios and interactive entertainment franchises, including Call of Duty.

What you will do

• Design and implement advanced anti-cheat technologies for game clients.
• Analyze, update, and improve existing security and protection frameworks.
• Investigate, develop, and deploy cheat-detection mechanisms.
• Collaborate with engineers across multiple studios to integrate systems and maintain performance.
• Address complex technical challenges affecting game integrity and fair play.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant professional software development experience.
• Experience working with large-scale, complex systems and engineering organizations focused on CI/CD, scalability, and automation.
• Deep familiarity with C++ codebases, refactoring, compilation, linking, and toolchains.
• Expertise in debugging, optimization, performance tuning, and diagnosing compiler or linker failures.
• Advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Comfort reading and debugging compiled code at the assembly level, with clear written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with multiplayer game engine internals.
• Experience in reverse engineering and software analysis.
• DevOps experience.
• Background in mathematics or cryptography.
• Hands-on experience in the anti-cheat domain.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with distributed Central Technology teams supporting studios across multiple countries.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and spending-account benefits, subject to eligibility.
• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave, and other leave programs.
• Mental health, wellbeing, fitness, gaming, legal-service, and identity-protection programs.
• Relocation assistance may be available when the role requires moving to another geographic location.