Senior Cheat Software Engineer
Rockstar Games
As a Senior Cheat Software Engineer, you will help protect player experience by researching, designing, and refining anti-cheat measures across large-scale games. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to identify vulnerabilities, drive root-cause analysis, and implement robust detection and remediation. This role sits within Rockstar’s Cheat Software Engineering Team, contributing to a mission of secure, fair gameplay. You’ll tackle complex security challenges and shape internal tooling to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Responsibilities- Reverse engineer, analyze, debug, and document application behaviours
- Develop, fine-tune, and support anti-cheat measures and in-game abuse prevention systems
- Drive root cause analysis of internally and publicly identified vulnerabilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve security controls and detection
- Support active development of internal tooling and anti-cheat solutions
- Identify gaps in anti-cheat capabilities and detection workflows to improve security posture
- 5+ years of reverse engineering, software or malware analysis experience
- Strong C/C++ skills with experience on large codebases
- Proven ability to analyze software and malware using static and dynamic approaches
- Experience bypassing anti-analysis and anti-debugging techniques
- Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving skills
- Experience with scripting and automation for reverse engineering and binary analysis
- Excellent communication of complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong analytical mindset
- Effective communication with non-technical stakeholders
- Collaborative cross-functional work
- C/C++
- Reverse engineering
- Malware analysis (static/dynamic)
Reference: WJ-747_30135669