Senior Anti-Cheat Security Engineer
MrBeast
178,000 - 268,000 / year
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Description
About Us
Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.
About The Role
At MrBeast, we build global digital experiences that bring together content, commerce, community, and interactive entertainment. We're launching mobile competitions at a scale no one has attempted — imagine a million players competing in a live elimination bracket where one winner takes the prize. Nothing about that works unless every player trusts the game is fair.
Who You Are
We're looking for a Senior Anti-Cheat Security Engineer to own that trust. You'll protect our games, players, tournaments, prize economies, and supporting infrastructure from cheating, fraud, abuse, and exploitation. This is a hands-on builder role: secure game and tournament architecture, automated detection at massive scale, and rapid response when adversaries adapt.
What You'll Do
You'll partner with gameplay, platform, mobile, data, fraud, and security teams to design protections across mobile clients, backend services, APIs, and real-time telemetry — and you'll help set the integrity foundation for prize competitions watched by hundreds of millions of people.
If you enjoy adversarial problems where the attacker has real money on the line, this role is for you.
Must Haves
- 7+ years in game security, application security, anti-cheat engineering, fraud prevention, or mobile security.
- Strong software-development skills in Python or TypeScript, with experience building backend services, detection tools, or automation.
- Deep understanding of API security, authentication/authorization, session management, and applied cryptography.
- Hands-on experience with mobile platform security: iOS/Android app hardening, attestation, root/jailbreak detection, or reverse engineering of mobile apps.
- Understanding of server-authoritative game design and common cheating and abuse techniques.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and distributed, real-time architectures.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with mobile instrumentation and RE tooling (Frida, objection, Ghidra, jadx, Hopper) and mobile RASP/hardening products.
- Experience securing tournaments, leaderboards, sweepstakes, skill-gaming, real-money gaming, or other prize-bearing competitions — including the regulatory dimensions (geo-eligibility, age gating, KYC).
- Knowledge of payment fraud, chargebacks, virtual currencies, or marketplace abuse.
- Experience with SIEM platforms, streaming telemetry pipelines, and large-scale behavioral analytics; applying statistics or ML to anomaly detection.
- Experience assessing WebSocket/UDP real-time protocols under adversarial conditions.
- Security research, bug bounty, CTF, conference, or open-source track record.
Compensation: $178,000 –$268,000 base + bonus + equity + benefits (Note: Compensation will vary based on seniority/level)
Benefits
The Perks, Why Work On the MrBeast Team
We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
Benefits
- health insurance
- 401(k)
- stock options
- life insurance
About this role
Beast Industries is launching live mobile competitions at unprecedented scale—imagine a million players in real-time elimination brackets competing for actual prizes. That infrastructure only works if every player believes the game is fair, and that's where this role sits. As Senior Anti-Cheat Security Engineer, you'd own the security architecture protecting those games, tournaments, prize economies, and the underlying systems from cheating, fraud, and exploitation. You'd work across gameplay, platform, mobile, data, and fraud teams to design protections spanning mobile clients, backend services, APIs, and real-time telemetry systems watched by hundreds of millions of people.
This is a hands-on builder role for someone who thrives on adversarial problems where attackers have real financial incentive. You'd design server-authoritative game architecture, build automated detection at scale, and respond rapidly as adversaries adapt. The work spans mobile platform hardening (iOS/Android attestation, jailbreak detection, reverse engineering), API security and cryptography, backend service design in Python or TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure. You need 7+ years in game security, anti-cheat, fraud prevention, or mobile security, plus deep hands-on experience with the tools and techniques attackers actually use.
The role offers $178,000–$268,000 base salary plus bonus, equity, and standard benefits including medical, dental, vision, HSA contributions, 401k matching, and flexible vacation. The position is fully remote.
Pay for this role
$178,000 to $268,000 per year
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