Mobile Game Security Software Engineer at KRAFTON Americas
El Segundo, CA
$146,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
El Segundo, CA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within KRAFTON's internal security platform team, focused on building and maintaining mobile anti-cheat and anti-tamper capabilities for Android and iOS games. Day-to-day work involves researching mobile attack techniques, implementing runtime protections such as memory/process integrity checks and unauthorized tool detection, and ensuring those defenses hold up reliably across live game environments. It suits engineers with a background in low-level mobile security, native C++ development, and client-side threat analysis.
Senior level · 5+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 15–50
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What the occupation pays Median $132,481 (middle half $96,915–$170,448). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (6)
This role sits at the boundary between security analysis (15-1212) and software development (15-1252): the primary output is building Anti-Cheat/Anti-Tamper security features in C++, which is engineering work, but the domain is squarely mobile security research and threat analysis. 15-1212 was chosen because security research, threat detection design, and defensive technology development are the stated core; 15-1252 is a strong runner-up.
The location is inferred as California (Los Angeles area, where KRAFTON Americas is headquartered) based on the California-specific salary disclosure. No city is explicitly named.
Android and iOS are listed together as a paired requirement ('native clients for Android or iOS, or equivalent understanding') — they are alternatives for the native development experience gate, though the role covers both platforms in practice.
Anti-Cheat, Anti-Tamper, and DRM are listed as interchangeable examples of the required client protection experience domain.
SaaS-based security solution experience is listed under Preferred Qualifications as 'strongly preferred' — it remains preferred per section placement, though the 'strongly preferred' language signals it is weighted heavily.
Reverse engineering tools (IDA, Ghidra, Frida, LLDB, lldb-server) and platform internals (Android NDK, JNI, Objective-C/Swift, Mach-O, ELF, ARM/AArch64) all appear under Preferred Qualifications.
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