Senior Security Engineer - Player Security, Information Security

11 Months ago • 3-5 Years

Job Description

Senior Security Engineer specializing in Player Security for Riot Games. This role requires strong data analysis and pipeline engineering skills, with experience in building data-driven solutions to combat threats and ensure player safety. Must have experience with large datasets, data platforms, and programming languages like Go/Python/Java/TypeScript.
Good To Have:
  • OAuth 2.0
  • AWS Cloud
  • C++
  • Gaming Ecosystems
Must Have:
  • Data Analysis
  • Pipeline Engineering
  • Large Datasets
  • Go/Python/Java/TypeScript
Perks:
  • Medical/Dental
  • Retirement Match

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As a Senior Security Engineer within Player Security your efforts will be critical to making our accounts and wider service ecosystem more resilient against attacks and exploits. You will be responsible for building out our analytical capabilities and implementing effective detection methodologies against threat actors targeting Players and Riot. You will also be partnering with other teams in cross-discipline projects to make security improvements through new and existing services that will ensure a safe and secure gaming experience for our players.

The ideal candidate would have prior experience in data analysis/insights and data-driven pipeline engineering.

Reporting to the Manager, Security Engineering this role can be based in Dublin (Ireland), Los Angeles, or Seattle (US)

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with other engineering, data and security teams to improve existing services or build new ones!
  • Make sense of our large datasets to understand how attackers move and how we can stop them more effectively
  • Design and build internal tools that will allow us to detect bad actors within Riot's ecosystem
  • Lead and contribute to technical design, decision-making and implementation
  • Deliver high quality scalable security services for millions of players!

Required Qualifications:

  • 3-5 years of security-focused software development or security-focused data engineering experience
  • Experience working with large datasets and data platforms such as Databricks
  • Experience in building data-driven or event-driven pipelines in (any of) Go/Python/Java/TypeScript
  • Familiarity with online multiplayer gaming ecosystems
  • Familiarity working in an agile environment
  • Strong ability to collaborate with teammates across multiple disciplines

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience with OAuth 2.0 standards and development
  • Experience working in (any of) Go/Java//TypeScript for high-availability backend services
  • Prior experience developing security services for product ecosystems.
  • Experience working with AWS cloud services
  • Familiarity with C++

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks

We offer medical and dental plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and flexible benefits fund.

Let's Thrive Together:

Because together we are better.

We know that fresh and varied perspectives will make us better at what we do, so however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we're excited to hear from you. Don't be discouraged if you feel you don't fully meet every single one of the requirements for a particular role, there's always room for growth at Riot. If you spot a role to make you want to jump out of bed in the morning, we are waiting to hear from you! Don't forget to include a resume. We receive many applications, but we'll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you Dare to Dream and Execute with Excellence.

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