Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst
Epic Games · Cary,North Carolina,United States
About this role
## Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst ### What makes us EPIC? At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment—whether building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to create visually stunning interactive experiences. ### INFOSEC — What we do Help keep Epic’s networks, hardware, and people safe from security risks. Install security measures and operate software to protect systems and information infrastructure (including firewalls and encryption). Document issues as they arise and assess/report any impact. ### What you’ll do Epic is seeking a **Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst** to identify, investigate, and disrupt the people who cheat, defraud, or abuse Epic’s games and players. You’ll track cheat developers, account sellers, and fraud operations back to the people and infrastructure behind them, then work with **Ecosystem Security** and **Legal** to turn research into mitigations, enforcement, and legal action. This role owns investigations from first lead to finished report with minimal oversight. ### In this role, you will - 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 (not just the products) - Investigate fraud and abuse across the ecosystem, including **V-Bucks fraud**, **Support-A-Creator fraud**, and **payout fraud** - Monitor cheat communities and underground markets for new features, techniques, and trends; feed findings into mitigations and enforcement decisions - Track account compromise methods and social engineering tactics used against players - Research and maintain Epic’s gaming threat landscape (leading threat actors, methods, and likely next moves) - Prioritize actors by impact; build evidence packages supporting takedowns, payment disruption, and litigation; support Legal throughout the process - Work with external intel partners on reporting, cheat testing, and attribution; 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 end-to-end ### What we’re looking for - **4+ years** 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 (pivoting on handles, accounts, storefronts, payment details, domains, 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 (Jira or similar) and evidence documentation suitable for legal review - Clear report writing for technical, legal, and leadership audiences - Availability for **on-call rotation** ### EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE Epic offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision HRA, long-term disability, life insurance, and a 401k with competitive match. There’s also a mental well-being program through Modern Health (free therapy and coaching), plus unlimited PTO and sick time, paid company events/breaks, and recognition including a paid sabbatic
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