Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer
About The Position
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress at EA. EA Security protects our players, employees, products, and platforms. We set security standards, support game and enterprise teams, assess risk across partners and systems, and ensure compliance with global requirements. Our work strengthens system integrity, supports fair play, and enables teams to build and operate securely at scale. The Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer I is a member of EA Security's Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team and will report to the manager of the Gameplay Integrity Operations. As an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer I, your primary job will involve monitoring the environment of our games using our internal anti-cheat solution. Your work will help ensure fair and fun experiences for EA's players across all of EA's games. In addition to running daily anti-cheat operations, you'll perform investigations into suspected cheating activity to confirm or refute reports and improve the quality of our detections. You’ll deep dive into data provided by a variety of tools, and you’ll gather and review threat intelligence supporting our anti-cheat and UGX (user-generated experiences & modding) protection pipelines. You should have experience working in a Security Operations Center, an understanding of the cheating problem in the gaming industry, and a passion to learn new technologies and challenge assumptions.
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience as a SOC Tier 1 analyst working with SIEM technologies
- Knowledge of the cheating problem in the gaming industry (PC cheats, modding, external cheats, internal cheats, wall hacks, aimbots, etc.)
- Basic knowledge of operating system fundamentals (processes, threads, virtual memory, etc.)
- Engage and articulate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
- Identify knowledge gaps and seek the right sources to close those gaps
- Safely handle potentially malicious software
- Pick up new technical skills quickly
- Excellent verbal and written English skills
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Security or similar, or relevant industry experience
- Information Security certifications such as CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, or Security+
- Experience building tools that automate tasks
- Experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development
Responsibilities
- Monitor anti-cheat operations dashboards
- Investigate suspected cheating activity
- Gather threat intelligence to support efforts for anti-cheat and UGX (user-generated content and modding)
- Perform triage and investigations of enforcement appeals
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve the quality of our detections
- Plan work related to anti-cheat operations and investigation tasks
- Clearly communicate task progress and blockers to the team
- Write concise documentation for a variety of topics dealing with anti-cheat operations
- Identify needs and improvements to current processes dealing with anti-cheat operations
- Identify needs and lead the development of your technical skills in the anti-cheat space
Benefits
- vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
- 10 days per year of sick time
- paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
- extended health/dental/vision coverage
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- retirement plan
- bonus and other incentive programs
- healthcare coverage
- mental well-being support
- retirement savings
- paid time off
- family leaves
- complimentary games
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
