Senior Security Engineer, Player Security
About The Position
As a Security Engineer on the Player Security team, you will help protect player accounts and Riot’s broader service ecosystem from attacks and abuse. You will build analytical capabilities, develop data-driven detection methods, and investigate how threat actors operate across Riot’s systems. Working closely with engineering, data, and security teams, you will improve existing services and create new solutions that provide millions of players with a safe and secure gaming experience. This role is suited to someone with experience in security engineering, data analysis, and building scalable data or event-driven pipelines. Success in this role comes through craft expertise, collaboration, and decision-making that prioritizes player delight. Riot considers candidates’ studies, experience, and personal relationship with games, and values player empathy and care for players’ experiences.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in security analysis, data engineering, or a related area.
- Experience analyzing large datasets and working with data platforms such as Databricks.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience working in an agile software-development environment.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with online multiplayer games and their associated account, platform, or abuse ecosystems.
- Experience building data-driven or event-driven pipelines using one or more languages such as Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript.
- Experience developing security detections or investigating attacker behavior.
- Understanding of account security, fraud, abuse prevention, or threat detection.
Responsibilities
- Analyze large datasets to understand attacker behavior and identify opportunities to strengthen defenses.
- Design and build tools and detection systems to identify malicious activity across Riot’s ecosystem.
- Develop scalable, reliable data-driven and event-driven security services.
- Collaborate with engineering, data, security, and other cross-functional teams.
- Contribute to technical design, architecture, and implementation decisions.
- Improve existing security capabilities and help develop new approaches to protecting players.
- Ideate, refine, and complete threat hunts to inform security controls.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Medical insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Parental leave for the employee, their spouse or domestic partner, and children.
- 401(k) with company match.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
