Senior Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering

3 Months ago • 5-8 Years • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering at EA will lead a full-stack team responsible for developing and deploying anti-cheat solutions across EA's game portfolio. This role involves managing all development stages, from design to production, and collaborating with various teams (data analysts, engineers, game studios) to safeguard the player experience. Key responsibilities include planning, capacity management, stakeholder engagement, improving operational effectiveness, change management, talent development, and building cross-functional connections to enhance EA's security posture. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, technical, and communication skills, with proven experience in managing engineering teams in an Agile environment and working with anti-cheat technologies.
Must have:
  • Experienced people manager
  • Leading engineering teams
  • Agile environment experience
  • Software development lifecycle expertise
  • Live service solution maintenance
  • Stakeholder management skills
Good to have:
  • Android/iOS cheating experience
  • Obfuscation/encryption tech experience
  • Anti-tamper technology experience
Perks:
  • Comprehensive health and benefit packages
  • Free games
  • Paid time off
  • New parent leave

Job Details

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 safeguard the gameplay experience for millions of players across the globe.

You will be a member of the Secure Product Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team, reporting to the Director of Anti-Cheat Engineering. We are looking for an experienced engineering manager who is passionate about mentoring and growing their team, driving software quality and delivering best-in-class anti-cheat solutions..

You will provide operational leadership for a full stack Anti-Cheat Engineering team, encompassing multiple areas of expertise, including client engineering, backend engineering, infrastructure management, and Windows kernel development.

You will partner closely with other teams facilitating the success of anti-cheat efforts within Electronic Arts, including data analysts, data scientists, reverse engineers, and members of our integrated game studios.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Be

  • Manage planning in all development stages, from designing and scoping a new feature to seeing it ship to production.

  • Scope and Capacity Management across the team.

  • Partner with technical subject matter experts and program and product managers to create scenarios and guide the decision-making process for our anti-cheat product.

  • Improve operational effectiveness of team effort by assessing current practices, incorporating new strategies, and increasing predictability.

  • Effective change management. Change is welcomed as an opportunity to drive strategic, business-impacting change.

  • Build connections across the business and through these relationships increase EA's security posture.

  • Identify resourcing needs, guide and develop changes to talent, skills and practices to accomplish operational and strategic goals.

  • Coordinate talent management and succession planning.

  • Monitor and evolve talent skill mix, using training and active recruitment plans and strategies.

  • Promote a culture of diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

  • Experienced people manager

  • Experienced leading teams of engineers

  • Experience managing work in an Agile environment

  • Excellent stakeholder management skills

  • Understanding of software development lifecycle practices and familiarity with maintaining a live service solution.

  • Experience working with or familiarity with the external security researching community, game cheat community, anti-cheat technologies, or identifying and using cheats in games

  • Successful when managing a team of remote individual contributors

Bonus

  • Experience in Android/iOS cheating space

  • Experience with obfuscation/encryption technologies

  • Experience with anti-tamper technologies

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages and free games. We also offer a culture that values creativity and individuality.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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