Mobile Game Security Software Engineer (Anti-Cheat)

Location: El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $146,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global publishes globally recognized games, including PUBG: Battlegrounds, through a network of game development studios.

What you will do

• Research and develop mobile anti-cheat and anti-tamper features for Android and iOS games.
• Detect and respond to tampering, repackaging, hooking, debugging, rooting, jailbreaking, automation, and unauthorized tool usage.
• Analyze mobile operating system internals, runtimes, system calls, security mechanisms, and executable formats.
• Design memory and process protection, runtime environment verification, and unauthorized tool detection features.
• Research emerging cheat and attack techniques and develop defensive technologies.
• Support reliable deployment of security features across varied mobile game environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of C++ software development experience and understanding of object-oriented design.
• Experience developing anti-cheat, anti-tamper, DRM, security, or client protection technologies.
• Knowledge of memory management, multithreading, mobile operating systems, runtimes, process and memory structures, and executable file formats.
• Experience developing native Android or iOS clients, or equivalent technical understanding.
• Ability to analyze threats from a security perspective, anticipate bypass methods, and solve unfamiliar problems.

Nice to have

• Experience with SaaS-based security solutions and large-scale live mobile game environments.
• Knowledge of Android NDK, JNI, Objective-C, Swift, Mach-O, ELF, ARM/AArch64, and assembly.
• Experience with IDA, Ghidra, Frida, LLDB, or lldb-server.
• Background in malware analysis, vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, anti-debugging, or mobile security techniques.
• Experience with low-level mobile system programming focused on performance, stability, and compatibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a standardized game security platform used across multiple studios.
• Build security capabilities for globally distributed game products.
• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations are provided for qualified applicants.