Backend Engineer II, Anti-Cheat

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The Secure Product Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team ensures that all EA products are developed with the security and gameplay integrity of our players as a top priority. We partner with both platform development teams and game studios to ensure that security and gameplay integrity issues are identified and resolved throughout the application and service lifecycle.

We are looking for an Anti-Cheat Engineer II to help assert Electronic Arts' games as best-in-class in game security and integrity. Your primary responsibilities will include the development of our backend anti-cheat technologies, adding new features that address the scale of the problems we face in the anti-cheat space.

You're a great team player, but are also able to go heads down and achieve success when given direction on our team's goals. In this role, you will solve a critical problem for our players, ensuring they have a fair and level playing field.

• Design and develop backend microservices in Rust for scalable and resilient operation
• Analyze and optimize data flow from client-side to backend services and data storage
• Identify, investigate, and resolve issues at any layer of the technology stack, including AWS cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal developers, product managers, and QA teams to deliver project requirements
• Document solutions, provide technical guidance, and contribute to system design discussions
• Participate in on-call rotations or provide support for critical incidents as required

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally including technical project ownership
• Proficient in Rust and related backend libraries
• Strong background in microservices, distributed system fundamentals, and REST / gRPC APIs
• Skilled in AWS infrastructure setup, monitoring, deployment, and troubleshooting
• Demonstrated ability to dissect and resolve issues across application and cloud infrastructure
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to document and explain choices/solutions
• Ability to work independently or as part of a distributed team
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with developing or reversing obfuscation or encryption technologies
• Experience developing anti-tamper, anti-virus, or anti-malware SaaS technologies
• Strong understanding of security software services and design of resilient systems
• Experience in remote working environments, collaborating across multiple time zones
• Understanding of cloud cost optimization and security/hardening techniques