Senior Security Engineer - Data-Driven Threat Detection

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401k with company match

Open PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Security Engineer on the Player Security team to help protect player accounts and Riot’s service ecosystem from attacks and abuse. You will build analytical capabilities, develop data‑driven detection methods, and investigate threat actors across our systems to improve defenses and provide players with a safe gaming experience.

The role emphasizes security engineering, data analysis, and building scalable data or event‑driven pipelines, collaborating with cross‑functional

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in security analysis, data engineering, and related areas.
• 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.

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, 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.

Skills

Security engineering

Data analysis

Large datasets

Agile methodology

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Security Engineer on the Player Security team to help protect player accounts and Riot’s service ecosystem from attacks and abuse. You will build analytical capabilities, develop data‑driven detection methods, and investigate threat actors across our systems to improve defenses and provide players with a safe gaming experience.

The role emphasizes security engineering, data analysis, and building scalable data or event‑driven pipelines, collaborating with cross‑functional