Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst

Game Companies; Cary (NC); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical

Dental

Vision

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401k with match

Unlimited PTO

Sick time

Mental health program through Modern H

Descripción de la vacante

Epic Games in Cary, NC is seeking a Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst to identify and disrupt cheating, fraud, and abuse in Epic's games. You will track cheaters, resellers, and fraud operations, building evidence to enable mitigations, enforcement, and legal action.

You will work with Ecosystem Security, Legal, and external partners to produce case reports, threat landscape analyses, and quarterly threat reporting. On-call rotation is required.

Formación

• 4+ years of experience in threat intelligence, online investigations, anti-cheat, fraud, or trust and safety.
• Strong OSINT skills, including pivoting on handles, accounts, storefronts, payment details, domains, and hosting.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms such as Flashpoint, Recorded Future, or similar.
• Comfortable querying data in SQL or Splunk, with basic Python.
• Organized case management (Jira or similar) and evidence documentation that holds up to legal review.
• Clear report writing for technical, legal, and leadership audiences.
• Availability for on-call rotation.

Responsabilidades

• 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 only the products themselves
• Investigate fraud and abuse across the ecosystem, including V-Bucks fraud, Support-A-Creator fraud, and map payout fraud
• Monitor cheat communities and underground markets for new features, techniques, and trends, and feed findings into technical mitigations and enforcement decisions
• Track account compromise methods and social engineering tactics used against players
• Research and maintain Epic's gaming threat landscape, including the leading threat actors, their methods, and where they are likely to move next
• Prioritize actors by impact and build evidence packages that support takedowns, payment disruption, and litigation, and support Legal throughout the legal process
• Work with external intel partners on reporting, cheat testing, and attribution, and exchange intelligence with gaming industry peers
• Support incident response with research on cheats, exploits, compromised accounts, and leaks
• Write case reports and contribute to quarterly threat reporting, and own small projects from the team backlog end to end

Conocimientos

Threat intelligence

OSINT

SQL

Python

Diligence

Herramientas

Flashpoint

Recorded Future

Jira

Descripción del empleo

Cybersecurity

2–5 years

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 it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

INFOSEC

What We Do

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 programs. Document issues as they arise and assess & report any impact caused.

What You'll Do

We're 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 that 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 only the products themselves
• Investigate fraud and abuse across the ecosystem, including V-Bucks fraud, Support-A-Creator fraud, and map payout fraud
• Monitor cheat communities and underground markets for new features, techniques, and trends, and feed findings into technical mitigations and enforcement decisions
• Track account compromise methods and social engineering tactics used against players
• Research and maintain Epic's gaming threat landscape, including the leading threat actors, their methods, and where they are likely to move next
• Prioritize actors by impact and build evidence packages that support takedowns, payment disruption, and litigation, and support Legal throughout the legal process
• Work with external intel partners on reporting, cheat testing, and attribution, and exchange intelligence with gaming industry peers
• Support incident response with research on cheats, exploits, compromised accounts, and leaks
• Write case reports and contribute to quarterly threat reporting, and own small projects from the team backlog end to end

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of 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, including pivoting on handles, accounts, storefronts, payment details, domains, and hosting
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms such as Flashpoint, Recorded Future, or similar
• Comfortable querying data in SQL or Splunk, with basic Python
• Organized case management (Jira or similar) and evidence documentation that holds up to legal review
• Clear report writing for technical, legal, and leadership audiences
• Availability for on-call rotation

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

About Us

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

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