Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst

Epic Games • Cary, NC

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About The Position

Epic Games is seeking a Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst to identify, investigate, and disrupt people who cheat, defraud, or abuse its games and players. The analyst will trace cheat developers, account sellers, and fraud operations to the people and infrastructure behind them, then collaborate with Ecosystem Security and Legal on mitigations, enforcement, and legal action. The role owns investigations from initial lead through final report with minimal oversight.

The analyst will research Epic’s gaming threat landscape, including threat actors, methods, and likely future activity; monitor cheat communities and underground markets; investigate fraud and abuse across the ecosystem; and support incident response. The role also involves producing case reports and quarterly threat reporting, contributing evidence for takedowns, payment disruption, and litigation, and working with external intelligence partners and gaming industry peers.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in threat intelligence, online investigations, anti-cheat, fraud, or trust and safety.
• Working knowledge of how cheat, account-selling, or fraud ecosystems operate.
• Strong OSINT skills, including pivoting on handles, accounts, storefronts, payment details, domains, and hosting.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms such as Flashpoint, Recorded Future, or similar.
• Comfort querying data in SQL or Splunk, with basic Python skills.
• Organized case management using Jira or similar, and evidence documentation that holds up to legal review.
• Clear report writing for technical, legal, and leadership audiences.
• Availability for an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Investigate cheat developers, sellers and resellers, account sellers, tournament cheaters, DDoS providers, and exploit developers targeting Epic's games.
• Identify the people, networks, and infrastructure behind cheat products and fraud schemes.
• Investigate ecosystem fraud and abuse, including V-Bucks fraud, Support-A-Creator fraud, and map payout fraud.
• Monitor cheat communities and underground markets for new features, techniques, and trends, and share findings to inform technical mitigations and enforcement decisions.
• Track account compromise methods and social engineering tactics targeting players.
• Research and maintain Epic's gaming threat landscape, including leading threat actors, their methods, and likely future activity.
• Prioritize actors by impact and build evidence packages supporting takedowns, payment disruption, and litigation; support Legal throughout the legal process.
• Work with external intelligence partners on reporting, cheat testing, and attribution, and exchange intelligence with gaming industry peers.
• Support incident response with research on cheats, exploits, compromised accounts, and leaks.
• Write case reports, contribute to quarterly threat reporting, and own small projects from the team backlog end to end.

Benefits

• Company pays 100% of medical, dental, vision HRA, long-term disability, and life insurance premiums for employees and their dependents.
• 401(k) with competitive match.
• Free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents through Modern Health.
• Employee events and company-wide paid breaks.
• Unlimited PTO and sick time.
• Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed