Senior Security Engineer, Player Security
Riot Games1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Analyze large datasets to understand attacker behavior and identify opportunities to strengthen security defenses.
- Design and build tools and detection systems that 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 develop new approaches to protecting players.
- Ideate, refine, and complete threat hunts to inform security controls.
Requirements
- Requires 3–5 years of experience in security analysis, data engineering, or related work.
- 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.
- Preferred familiarity with online multiplayer games and their account, platform, or abuse ecosystems.
- Preferred experience building data-driven or event-driven pipelines using Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript.
- Preferred experience developing security detections or investigating attacker behavior.
- Preferred understanding of account security, fraud, abuse prevention, or threat detection.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance.
- Parental leave for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and children.
- 401k with company match.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringSecurity
About Riot Games
Riot Games develops and publishes online multiplayer games for PC and mobile, including League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. The company operates free-to-play titles monetized via in-game purchases and runs global esports leagues and events around its franchises. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Riot is a subsidiary of Tencent with offices worldwide.