Game Security Software Engineer (Anti-Cheat)

Location: El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $146,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops and publishes games worldwide, including PUBG: Battlegrounds, through a network of global production studios.

What you will do

• Develop C++-based game security and anti-cheat client modules for hirify.global Security Services.
• Detect and respond to client tampering, memory manipulation, code injection, API hooking, debugging, and automation tools.
• Design and implement user-mode and kernel-mode security features for Windows game environments.
• Analyze processes, threads, memory, drivers, system calls, and other Windows internals to identify threats.
• Improve detection stability, performance, compatibility, and false-positive rates.
• Research new cheat techniques and support reliable deployment across multiple game environments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of C++ software development experience.
• 5+ years of low-level Windows development experience focused on security or anti-cheat.
• Knowledge of Windows internals, including processes, threads, virtual memory, synchronization, DLLs, and PE structures.
• Ability to understand x64 assembly and analyze disassembled code.
• Knowledge of kernels, drivers, system calls, interrupts, memory management, and computer architecture.
• Ability to analyze threats and design solutions while considering potential bypass methods.

Nice to have

• Experience with anti-cheat, DRM, EDR, client protection, or Windows kernel driver development.
• Experience with IDA, Ghidra, WinDbg, or x64dbg.
• Knowledge of code injection, manual mapping, DKOM, rootkits, anti-debugging, anti-tamper, TPM, Secure Boot, VBS, or HVCI.
• Experience operating security features in large-scale live game environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on hirify.global Security Services, a shared game trust platform for multiple studios.
• Build security technologies for globally recognized game products.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals.
• Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination commitment.