Scopely is looking for a Lead Anticheat Engineer to establish and lead a new client security function in China. You'll design and ship client and server-side protections for large-scale mobile games, combat sophisticated cheating ecosystems, and ensure fair play for tens of millions of players. We believe video games can be a force for good, creating meaningful connections and vibrant communities.
What You'll Do
- Lead, grow, and mentor a team of client security and anti-cheat engineers in China, setting technical direction, coding standards, and operational best practices.
- Design, implement, and maintain client-side detections against third-party cheating tools, modified clients, hooking frameworks, and emulators on Android and iOS.
- Own the client security integration into internal anti-cheat platforms, ensuring detections are actionable and scalable.
- Define and evolve the obfuscation and hardening strategy for China mobile builds, including binary protection, anti-debugging, anti-tamper, and integrity checks.
- Build and maintain strong coverage for the China mobile ecosystem, including multiple Android app stores, OEM devices, diverse OS/ROM variants, rooted/jailbroken environments, and local emulator-based cheating patterns.
- Contribute hands-on code (C++ plus Java/Kotlin and/or Objective-C/Swift) in security-sensitive paths, including detection logic, integrity checks, and secure client-server protocols.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of professional experience in mobile security, game anti-cheat, or client-side security engineering, including direct work on Android or iOS native code.
- Direct experience with reverse engineering.
- Deep hands-on experience with Android and iOS internals, hooking and instrumentation frameworks, and common mobile client security attack vectors.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ and at least one mobile native language (Java/Kotlin for Android or Objective-C/Swift for iOS), including shipping production code in large apps.
- Demonstrated experience designing and shipping client-side anti-cheat or integrity systems that integrate with server-side enforcement or analytics pipelines.
- Prior experience leading or technically directing a small engineering team.
- Experience working with large-scale telemetry or anti-abuse pipelines and using data to tune detections and reduce false positives.
- Professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English, written and spoken.
- Requires five days per week in the office.
Nice to Have
- BS / MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent.
- Experience shipping and securing mobile games or large-scale consumer apps specific to the China market, including exposure to multiple Android app-store ecosystems, OEM variations, desktop/mobile emulator usage patterns, and tooling development.
- Previous CTF or CVE contributing experience.
- Prior work on client obfuscation or hardening pipelines, including vendor evaluation and integration, and handling performance and stability tradeoffs.
- Familiarity with large-scale cloud environments, streaming data processing, and monitoring/alerting.
Technical Stack
- C++
- Java
- Kotlin
- Objective-C
- Swift
- Android
- iOS
Team & Environment
You will build and lead a new client security function in China.
Work Mode
This role is onsite in China.
Scopely is an equal opportunity employer.
