Senior Security Engineer, Player Security
Riot Games · Los Angeles, USA
About this role
**Senior Security Engineer — Player Security** As a Security Engineer on the Player Security team, you’ll help protect player accounts and Riot’s broader service ecosystem from attacks and abuse. You’ll build analytical capabilities, develop data-driven detection methods, and investigate how threat actors operate across our systems. Working closely with engineering, data, and security teams, you’ll improve existing services and create new solutions that provide millions of players with a safe and secure gaming experience. This role is a great fit if you have experience in security engineering, data analysis, and building scalable data or event-driven pipelines. **Responsibilities** - Analyze large datasets to understand attacker behavior and identify opportunities to strengthen 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 help develop new approaches to protecting players. - Ideate, refine, and complete threat hunts to inform security controls. **Required Qualifications** - 3–5 years of experience in security analysis, data engineering, and anything in between. - 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. **Desired Qualifications** - 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. **Our Perks** - Work/life balance with open paid time off and flexible work schedules. - Medical, dental, and life insurance. - Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. - 401(k) with company match. Riot is committed to putting players first and building collaborative teams where you can bring your unique perspective. *Riot is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations. Job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.*
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