# Game Security Analyst (Apex Legends)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: regular employee
**Salary**: $86,600 - $118,600 CAD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Games Security Analyst to support anti-cheat initiatives for Apex Legends.

The ideal candidate will have an understanding of multiplayer games, anti-cheat philosophies, and a passion for security principles and keeping games fair.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with teams across EA to guide resource allocation in the fight against cheaters.

- Develop and propose new internal processes or improvements.

- Assist in planning and implementing new security projects and processes.

- Monitor metrics and KPIs to identify malicious behaviour affecting game health.

- Investigate, document, and communicate about reported cheaters, cheats, exploits, and other detrimental behaviour.

- Track cheating trends and activities, raising flags when necessary.

Requirements:

- Familiarity with various types of cheats and their workings, especially in FPS games.

- Basic experience with anti-cheat technologies.

- Understanding of online game mechanics, including rendering, networking, and databases.

- Experience with SQL data querying.

Preferred qualifications:

- Native fluency in Mandarin (reading and writing).

- Basic knowledge of Asian streaming services and gaming ecosystems.

- Familiarity with a programming language used for scripting, such as Python.

- Knowledge of account security and account takeover activities.

- Avid FPS gamer.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($86,600 - $118,600 CAD).

- Comprehensive benefits package, including vacation time, sick leave, health and dental coverage, life insurance, and disability insurance.

- Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.

Electronic Arts values diversity and inclusion, offering equal opportunities for all candidates.

## Skills

### Required
- anti-cheat technologies
- SQL
- multiplayer games
- security principles

### Nice to have
- Mandarin language
- Asian streaming services
- Python
- account security

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