About the role
<div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2> <p>At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.</p> <p>Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.</p></div><h2>ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES</h2> <h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3> <p>Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p>Epic Games is looking for a Senior Game Security Engineer to join our Anti-Cheat team and work with not only our titles but a wide variety of games from around the world. You’ll join a team with many years of experience writing robust software that protects the game instances of millions of players per day. You’ll write code in an extremely unique and fast-paced environment to counteract cheats while minimizing invasiveness. If you are passionate about reverse engineering, computer security, OS internals, anti-debugging, software protection, you are in the right place. This is an incredible opportunity to create a safe environment for millions of players and advance industry best practices.</p> <h3><strong>In this role, you will</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Apply deep knowledge of operating system internals to detect and prevent the latest cheating techniques</li> <li><span>Champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities for Epic </span></li> <li><span>Reverse engineer cheats and other malicious software </span></li> <li><span>Actively seek out the next opportunity to make an improvement </span></li> <li><span>Communicate regularly with internal and external game developers to meet their unique needs </span></li> <li><span>Build a strong overall understanding of our game security systems </span></li> <li><span>Work closely with anti-cheat data analysts to quickly iterate on new techniques developers </span></li> </ul> <h3><strong>What we're looking f