Anti-Cheat / Trust & Safety Engineer

MidFull-time

Engineering

Detect, block, and respond to abuse across all arbastro products — exploits in games, web abuse on FriendPath, account fraud.

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Salary - Monthly (DOE)

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Full-time

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Mid level

What you'll do

•Build server-side anti-exploit checks in arbastro games
•Maintain and tune the FriendPath proxy abuse defenses (IP blocklist, per-IP/per-target dedup, Turnstile thresholds)
•Investigate incidents — like the slur-spam attack on FriendPath’s Most Searched leaderboard — and harden the systems involved
•Build admin moderation tooling for the arbastro admin console
•Coordinate with In-Game Moderators and Discord Moderators on threat signals

Requirements

•2+ years on security, anti-cheat, or trust & safety
•Roblox exploit landscape — Synapse/Krnl/etc behavior patterns, common bypasses
•Web abuse patterns — credential stuffing, account takeovers, leaderboard manipulation, comment/leaderboard spam
•Comfortable with rate-limit design, Cloudflare WAF, Turnstile, IP reputation services
•Bonus: experience with ML-based abuse classifiers

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•Remote work
•High autonomy
•Real adversaries — interesting work
•Direct prevention impact

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