Anti-Cheat Engineer Amazon Games

Amazon Games is seeking a talented Security Engineer to join our Anti team. In this role you will be responsible for protecting the multiplayer experience of millions of players by developing and maintaining anticheat antifraud and antibot solutions. Working within our Business Intelligence organization alongside anticheat industry veterans you will focus on creating and implementing detection systems that analyze telemetry data gathered from player systems to identify and counter security threats.

As a Security Engineer on the Anti team you will leverage your understanding of game engines Windows internals and cheat methodologies to design and implement serverside detection rules and systems. Youll work with largescale data processing systems while applying your security expertise to create effective detection mechanisms. This role requires a strong foundation in security principles software engineering skills and a deep understanding of game security challenges.

Key job responsibilities
Design and implement detection rules and systems based on client telemetry data
Analyze patterns in gathered data to identify suspicious behaviors and potential cheats
Apply knowledge of Windows internals and game engines to create effective detection logic
Develop and maintain scalable backend systems to process and analyze player behavior data
Research and reverse engineer common cheat techniques to inform detection strategies
Write efficient maintainable code for processing large volumes of security telemetry
Participate in the teams oncall rotation

A day in the life
As a Security Engineer you will have a significant impact on the multiplayer experiences of millions of players daily. Youll work within a crossdiscipline team of engineers and data scientists driving forward the mission to make cheaters miserable and preserve the integrity of gaming.

About the team
The Anti Team is a new initiative within Amazon Games dedicated to building industryleading multigame anticheat solutions from the ground up. Leveraging Amazons platform and compute capabilities our goal is to create innovative software that makes cheating so challenging and frustrating that it is no longer viable. Our team operates at the intersection of engineering data science and game security constantly iterating on our solutions to protect the player experience and enforce a level playing field for all players.

Experience successfully shipping products including experience with full product life cycles from design and development to deployment and maintenance
3 years of professional software development experience
2 years of experience with reverse engineering and development tools (IDA Pro WinDbg etc)
2 years of experience with C or other systems programming languages
2 years contributing to the architecture design or analysis of anticheat systems

Experienced in anticheat middleware like EAC and BattlEye
Experienced in code obfuscation and virtualization techniques
Knowledgeable in antimalware techniques antivirus or EDR
Knowledgeable in the AWS ecosystem
Knowledgeable in cheat or bot development
Knowledgeable in hardwarebased security such as TPMs
Knowledgeable in hypervisor and virtualization technology
Successful history in developing anticheat technologies
Passion for games and understanding of player experience impact

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.