Anticheat Software Engineer
United States, United StatesRemoteFull-time
AI Summary
Build and maintain anti-cheat systems for competitive esports, reverse-engineing cheats and low-level software to keep games fair.
About this role
Do you love gaming, hate cheaters, enjoy digging through undocumented APIs, and have fun reverse engineering? Do you have a passion for building quality software? CEVO is currently hiring for an Anticheat Software Engineer. Help keep competitive esports clean by applying your passion to disassemble, reverse engineer, tinker, and innovate in low-level systems for good! We are a remote company so you must be disciplined to work independently without continuous direct management.
Things we're looking for:
- Strong C and C++ experience
- Kernel-mode driver experience
- Windows internals, process and memory management
- Knowledge of how software runs at a byte level
- Analysis of cheat software and trends
- Experience writing quality software that has shipped to thousands
Nice to have:
- AWS, Azure, BlueMix, or other cloud IaaS/PaaS providers
- C# experience
- SQL Server, NoSQL/columnstore databases (such as Cassandra), Elastic
- Big Data modeling and analysis
Skills
AWSAzureByte-level AnalysisC++ElasticsearchIBM CloudKernel-mode DriversNoSQLProcess Memory ManagementReverse EngineeringSQL ServerWindows Internals
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