Remote Senior Security Engineer - Player Protection

SportsTechJobs; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Flexible work schedules

Open paid time off policy

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for the Player Security team, focused on protecting player accounts and Riot’s services from attacks. You will analyze large datasets, build detection pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance security across the ecosystem.

The role emphasizes experience in security engineering, data analysis, and scalable data pipelines, with a track record in threat detection and an understanding of multiplayer game ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in security analysis, data engineering, and related roles.
• 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.
• Familiarity with online multiplayer games and their account/abuse ecosystems.
• Experience building data-driven or event-driven pipelines using Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript.

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, data-driven security services.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, security, and other cross-functional teams.
• Improve existing security capabilities and help develop new approaches to protecting players.
• Ideate, refine, and complete threat hunts to inform security controls.

Skills

Security engineering

Data analysis

Threat detection

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Databricks

Go

Python

Java

TypeScript

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for the Player Security team, focused on protecting player accounts and Riot’s services from attacks. You will analyze large datasets, build detection pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance security across the ecosystem.

The role emphasizes experience in security engineering, data analysis, and scalable data pipelines, with a track record in threat detection and an understanding of multiplayer game ecosystems.