Anticheat Developer

About this role

We’re looking for developers with experience working on anticheats and with Minecraft internals to work on our in-house anticheat, Sentinel. In this high impact role, the work you do will directly impact millions of players on the network. You will be ensuring fair play and thus increasing the quality of play all across CubeCraft.

Responsibilities

• You will be working on both our Java and Bedrock platforms
• Rapidly deliver tools and solutions to combat players using forbidden mods
• Research common methods used by players to gain unfair advantages and calculate effective countermeasures
• Analyse new bypassing methods used by players as they get out into the wild
• Work in creating revolutionary technology to prevent players using modded clients
• Continue to ensure the quality of play of normal players remains exceptional

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Flexible working hours.
• Working with and developing cutting edge technology within the field.
• Dealing with the challenging demands of scale.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of Minecraft Java and Bedrock behaviour
• Very strong knowledge of Paper and its internals
• Very strong knowledge of working with the Minecraft Java and Bedrock protocol
• Strong understanding of client movement and validating anomalies
• Ability to work within a team setting and adhere to set out guidelines

Desired traits

• Experience or knowledge in data analytics
• Experience or knowledge in machine learning
• Previous experience in behavioural enforcement development
• Previous contributions to prolific open source projects within the Minecraft or wider development community

You should know/be able to:

• How to calculate players expected velocities under specific conditions
• How to debug and manipulate packets sent from a Minecraft client to understand patterns of behaviour

Depending on various factors (such as level, experience and location) which will be discussed during the recruitment process the compensation is expected to be, on average, around £13-£25 an hour for this role.

How to apply

When submitting your application please include a covering letter detailing any relevant experience, reasons for your application, and anything else you feel we should know about your application, along with your CV. These should be emailed to jobs@cubecraft.net. The subject of your email should be in this format:

"Position Applying for - Name - IGN - [Part or Full Time]"

For example:
"Anticheat Developer - John Smith - jsmith1 - Full Time"

As a brief note we do try to reply to all reasonable applications that we receive but from time to time we don’t get the chance. Any replies aim to be sent within 2 weeks of us receiving an application.

We want to hire great people, not just those with skills in applying for jobs! If you are worried about how to put together a CV or covering letter - try your best and we'll get back in touch with some written questions necessary or alternatively we'll provide advice and guidance on how best to format an application.