Senior Security Engineer, Player Security

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Riot Games
Full time
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USA
11/04/2026
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Los Angeles, CA

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.

Riot Games

Since 2006, Riot Games has stayed committed to changing the way video games are developed, published, and supported for players. From our first title, League of Legends, to 2020’s VALORANT; we have strived to evolve the community with growth in Esports, and expansion from games into entertainment...

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