{"id":273015,"date":"2026-06-14T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:00:17","slug":"epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games is hiring a Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat\/\">Epic Games is hiring a Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-14 16:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like Epic Games may be looking to actually improve how Easy Anti-Cheat works on Linux, with a job listing for a Senior Game Security Engineer. While the Epic-owned Easy Anti-Cheat does work on Linux, it&#8217;s not at the kernel level and that&#8217;s partly why so many games that use it decide to actively block Linux.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>From the job listing:<\/p>\n<h4>In this role, you will<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Apply deep knowledge of operating system internals to detect and prevent the latest cheating techniques<\/li>\n<li>Champion Linux anti-cheat capabilities for Epic<\/li>\n<li>Reverse engineer cheats and other malicious software<\/li>\n<li>Actively seek out the next opportunity to make an improvement<\/li>\n<li>Communicate regularly with internal and external game developers to meet their unique needs<\/li>\n<li>Build a strong overall understanding of our game security systems<\/li>\n<li>Work closely with anti-cheat data analysts to quickly iterate on new techniques developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>What we&#8217;re looking for<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Expert knowledge of C\/C++ in a security environment<\/li>\n<li>Deep knowledge of Linux and Windows OS internals<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with development and security practices on Linux and Windows<\/li>\n<li>Experience debugging and reverse engineering x86-64 binaries<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of online multiplayer video game architectures<\/li>\n<li>Experience working with data analytics to solve, prevent, or monitor problems at scale<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of code obfuscation techniques<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Job listings like this don&#8217;t suddenly mean they&#8217;re working towards Fortnite on Linux though. But at least it could be work towards eventually allowing it to work. Going by what Epic Games&#8217; CEO Tim Sweeney said back in 2023, Linux \/ SteamOS would need &#8220;tens of millions of users&#8221; before that were to happen.<\/p>\n<p>See the job over on Epic Games.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games is hiring a Security Engineer to champion Linux anti-cheat https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/epic-games-is-hiring-a-security-engineer-to-champion-linux-anti-cheat\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/1665607983id29211gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,57],"class_list":["post-273015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273019,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273015\/revisions\/273019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}