About the role
Location
Los Angeles, USA
Role Overview
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 our systems. Working closely with engineering, data, and security teams, you will help improve existing services and create new solutions that provide millions of players with a safe and secure gaming experience. This role is well suited to someone with 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 our 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.
Success Factors
- Craft expertise
- Collaborative spirit
- Decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players
- Player empathy and care about players' experiences
Perks and Benefits
- Open paid time off (PTO) policy
- Flexible work schedules
- Medical, dental, and life insurance
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
- 401(k) with company match
Compensation
- Base Salary Range (Los Angeles Only): $161,500.00 - $227,000.00 USD
- Additional Compensation: Incentive compensation, equity
- Benefits Package: 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, short and long-term disability, open PTO
Company Culture and Commitments
Riot focuses on work/life balance and puts players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. We strive to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective every day.
Riot Games provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members, making reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters without unlawful discrimination based on protected categories including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. All qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, are considered in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.