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Reverse Engineer - Information Security & Anticheat

EA Security

The EA Security team protects EA by reducing our exposure to security risks by raising awareness and providing a measured, proportionate set of security and risk management controls, services and solutions. This department also ensures that EA is meeting required security standards as defined by a variety of different regulatory bodies.

Description

The Reverse Engineer is a member of EA Security's Secure Platform Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response (SPEAR) team and will report to the manager of the Operations sub-team.

As a Reverse Engineer, your primary job will be to analyse cheats developed against EA's games and to make it harder for cheat developers to create new cheats. Your work will help ensure fair and fun gaming experiences for EA's customers across all of EA's games.

In addition to analysing existing cheats, you'll get your hands on new EA games before release so that you can work with developers to make it harder for players to cheat in their games. This means you will perform anti-cheat assessments that will cover everything from client-side tampering (external/internal), to network-based cheating, to source code review of thick clients.

Lastly, you'll need to determine the business risk posed by the gameplay integrity issues you discover and communicate your findings across teams to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You have an understanding of reverse engineering principals and a passion to learn new technologies, challenge assumptionss.

Main focuses for this role:

• Reverse engineer obfuscated user-mode cheats developed for PC, mobile, and consoles
• Document and report on the functionality of the cheats you've analysed
• Solve well-defined technical problems in the cheating space
• Use architecture and design documentation to create anti-cheat assessment scoping documents and define cheating test-cases for upcoming anti-cheat assessments
• Perform anti-cheat assessments of pre-release products
• Consult with and advise EA game teams on how to avoid classes of cheats
• Educate your peers on new reverse engineering skills and tools
• Develop tools, scripts, and extensions for automation and reverse engineering
• Identify cheat variants that defeat previous mitigations, and suggest solutions
• Promote technical issues to technical and non-technical partners
• Identify needs and lead the development of your reverse engineering skills

Required experience:

• Knowledge of operating system internals for Windows
• Knowledge of operating system fundamentals (processes, threads, virtual memory, etc.)
• Read x86/x64 assembly language.
• Experience with debuggers such as WinDbg, x64dbg, OllyDbg, or gdb
• Experience with disassemblers such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or radare2
• engage and articulate reverse engineering issues and cheating issues to technical and non-technical audiences
• Read one or more of C++, C#, Java, or .NET CIL
• Knowledge of cryptography fundamentals.
• Software development experience and the ability to write your own tools, scripts, and extensions
• Identify knowledge gaps and seek the right sources to close those gaps
• Safely handle potentially malicious software
• pick up new technical skills quickly