Senior Cheat Software Engineer

Overview

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

Key requirements

• 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)

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