Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer

Electronic Arts

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TX · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Salary
$86,600–$118,600 / yr
Posted
2 days ago

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Below market

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This role $103k
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About Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment, developing and publishing games for consoles, mobile, and PC under franchises including FIFA, Madden NFL, The Sims, Apex Legends, and Battlefield.

Electronic Arts currently has 75 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $122,300–$184,000 across 41 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer

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The Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer I role at EA Security in the SPEAR team involves monitoring and maintaining anti-cheat operations for EA’s games, ensuring fair play experiences. Daily tasks include investigating suspected cheating activities, gathering threat intelligence, and collaborating with other engineers to enhance detection quality. The ideal candidate has 1+ years of SOC Tier 1 analyst experience, familiarity with gaming industry cheats, and basic OS fundamentals. Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential for articulating complex technical topics. Additional qualifications such as a degree in Computer Science or Information Security, relevant certifications, and tool-building experience are beneficial. This role supports EA’s commitment to protecting players and maintaining system integrity across its expansive game portfolio.

Skills

SIEM Python Kubernetes Terraform Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL AWS Grafana Prometheus GitLab Linux Windows

What you'll do

  • Monitor anti-cheat operations dashboards to ensure game integrity.
  • Investigate suspected cheating activity to confirm or refute reports.
  • Gather and analyze threat intelligence for anti-cheat and UGX protection.
  • Perform triage and investigations of enforcement appeals from players.
  • Improve the quality of anti-cheat detections through collaboration with team.
  • Identify needs and lead development in technical skills related to anti-cheat.

What we're looking for

  • 1+ years of experience as a SOC Tier 1 analyst with SIEM technologies.
  • Knowledge of gaming industry cheating methods and tools like aimbots, wall hacks.
  • Basic understanding of operating system fundamentals including processes and threads.
  • Ability to engage and articulate complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Safely handle potentially malicious software and quickly learn new technical skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Security, or relevant experience.

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