Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst

Epic Games • Cary, NC

2d • $96,142 - $155,109

About The Position

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

The analyst will research and maintain Epic’s gaming threat landscape, monitor cheat communities and underground markets, investigate fraud and abuse across the ecosystem, and support incident response. The role also involves coordinating with external intelligence partners and gaming industry peers, producing case reports and quarterly threat reporting, and taking small team-backlog projects from start to finish. Availability for an on-call rotation is required.

The position is open to multiple locations in North America, including California and Washington. The posted annual base pay ranges are $105,756–$155,109 USD for California and $96,142–$141,008 USD for Washington. Compensation varies based on factors including skills, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. Most employees are eligible to participate in benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to their terms.

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.
• Organized case management using Jira or similar, and evidence documentation suitable for 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 programming tactics used against 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 through completion.

Benefits

• Most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to the terms of those plans or programs.

What This Job Offers

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