Anticheat Lead

Job Description

ONLINE TEAM

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Lead AntiCheat engineer to lead the efforts of protecting our games and online tournaments against exploits and attacks. Your efforts will be critical to the success of game projects such as Fortnite. The ideal candidate has shipped multiple titles as a senior or leading member of a game security team. This is an incredible opportunity to create a fun and safe environment for millions of players and make a positive impact on the entire Epic ecosystem.

In this role, you will
• Identify and prioritize exploits in Epic's ecosystem, both client and server, that can be used to deny or degrade service to our users, including but not limited to cheats, exploits, DDoS attacks, or using specifically designed network packets to crash the client or server
• Work with game and engine teams to audit game and engine code and ensure that best practices are being followed with respect to game state, obfuscation, and networking
• Work with game teams, publishing, and customer service to ensure that we have processes in place to flag potential cheaters, escalate, and take action including looking at technical solutions to patch the exploits being used and taking corrective action on the player's account
• Develop new technologies that protect the integrity of the games
• Lead a team of engineers and analysts that combat bad behavior within Fortnite
• Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new and existing features

What we're looking for
• Experience leading a team of engineers
• Expert knowledge of C++ in a game security environment
• Knowledge of client-server network architecture for real-time games
• Experience developing and shipping games for modern platforms and fullstack knowledge of game architecture
• Deep, technical understanding of methods used to attack or exploit networked systems
• Must work well under pressure
• Technical understanding of the structure and technology stacks of online game service backends
• You're user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwmxon-3-138-116-20-42 in your application.