Electronic Arts (EA) creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. They are seeking an Anti-Cheat Operations Engineer I to monitor game environments using internal anti-cheat solutions, investigate suspected cheating activities, and improve detection quality. The role involves collaborating with engineers and communicating progress on anti-cheat operations.
Responsibilities
- Monitor anti-cheat operations dashboards
- Investigate suspected cheating activity
- Gather threat intelligence to support efforts for anti-cheat and UGX (user-generated content and modding)
- Perform triage and investigations of enforcement appeals
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve the quality of our detections
- Plan work related to anti-cheat operations and investigation tasks
- Clearly communicate task progress and blockers to the team
- Write concise documentation for a variety of topics dealing with anti-cheat operations
- Identify needs and improvements to current processes dealing with anti-cheat operations
- Identify needs and lead the development of your technical skills in the anti-cheat space
Skills
- 1+ years of experience as a SOC Tier 1 analyst working with SIEM technologies
- Knowledge of the cheating problem in the gaming industry (PC cheats, modding, external cheats, internal cheats, wall hacks, aimbots, etc.)
- Basic knowledge of operating system fundamentals (processes, threads, virtual memory, etc.)
- Engage and articulate complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences
- Identify knowledge gaps and seek the right sources to close those gaps
- Safely handle potentially malicious software
- Pick up new technical skills quickly
- Excellent verbal and written English skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security or similar, or relevant industry experience
- Information Security certifications such as CEH, CISSP, GSEC, OSCP, OSCE, or Security+
- Experience building tools that automate tasks
- Experience with reverse engineering or anti-cheat/anti-malware development
Benefits
- Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
- 10 days per year of sick time
- Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
- Extended health/dental/vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan to regular full-time employees
- Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity
- Healthcare coverage
- Mental well-being support
- Retirement savings
- Paid time off
- Family leaves
- Complimentary games
Company Overview
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. It was founded in 1982, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.ea.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Electronic Arts (EA) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 139 in 2025, 105 in 2024, 207 in 2023, 233 in 2022, 198 in 2021, 145 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.