Senior Anti-Cheat & Security Engineer

Rockstar Games Internships; Dundee; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rockstar Games in Dundee, Scotland, is seeking a Senior Cheat Software Engineer to join the in-house Cheat Software Engineering Team. You will reverse engineer, analyse, and document app behaviours, and help build anti-cheat measures to protect the player experience.

In this full-time, permanent in-office role, you will collaborate with multiple teams to mitigate vulnerabilities and strengthen detection throughout game builds while contributing to tooling and security workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional, academic, or research experience in reverse engineering software/malware analysis.
• Strong C/C++ skills and experience with large codebases.
• Proven experience analysing software and malware through the use of static and dynamic analysis.
• Experience circumventing various anti-analysis and anti-debugging techniques.
• Strong analytical mind with problem-solving skills.
• Experience with scripting and process automation, in particular for the purpose of reverse engineering and binary analysis.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Reverse engineer, analyse, debug, and document application behaviours.
• Develop, fine-tune, and support anti-cheat measures and in-game abuse prevention systems.
• Drive root cause analysis efforts behind internally and publicly identified vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve security controls and detection.
• Support the active development of internal tooling and anti-cheat solutions.
• Identify gaps in anti-cheat capabilities and detection workflows in order to drive development efforts to improve our overall security posture.

Job description

Rockstar Games in Dundee, Scotland, is seeking a Senior Cheat Software Engineer to join the in-house Cheat Software Engineering Team. You will reverse engineer, analyse, and document app behaviours, and help build anti-cheat measures to protect the player experience.

In this full-time, permanent in-office role, you will collaborate with multiple teams to mitigate vulnerabilities and strengthen detection throughout game builds while contributing to tooling and security workflows.