Staff Anti-Cheat Analyst

1 Month ago • 6-8 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Anti-Cheat Analyst at Riot Games will identify, detect, and remove cheaters across Riot titles. Responsibilities include investigating threats, integrating with cheat communities, reverse engineering cheat software, analyzing data to automate detections within the Riot Vanguard ecosystem, informing Anti-Cheat engineering, collaborating with game teams, communicating with players, and leading Anti-Cheat Operations' technical foundations. The ideal candidate possesses 6-8 years of experience in game integrity, data analysis (Jupyter, Databricks), automation (Python), statistical computing (R/Python), SQL querying, Windows process/memory understanding, cheat development, and strong communication skills. The role demands proactive, measured, and innovative problem-solving to maintain game integrity and a competitive environment.
Must have:
  • 6-8 years experience in game integrity
  • Data analysis (Jupyter, Databricks)
  • Automation (Python)
  • Statistical computing (R/Python)
  • SQL querying
  • Windows process/memory expertise
  • Cheat development knowledge
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with cheating ecosystems
  • Development tools (Visual Studio, Git, WinDbg)
  • Windows Kernel and driver development
  • Reverse engineering
  • Knowledge of internal tooling systems
Perks:
  • Open paid time off policy
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave
  • 401k with company match

Job Details

Riot Anti-Cheat is a highly adaptive team passionate about their craft. We understand the player impact of cheating in games and are focused on setting the highest bar for the integrity of multiplayer games. As a Staff Analyst on Anti-Cheat, you will report to the Operations Manager. You will be involved with identifying, detecting, and actioning cheats and other nefarious abuses of third-party tools across Riot titles, protecting our games and handling resolutions for player accounts. You will help to lead Anti-Cheat in identification, detection, and prevention of major methods within the cheating ecosystem, as well as other intentional and nefarious impediments to a competitive player experience.

You will be proactive, measured, and innovative in using Riot’s state of the art technology to stay ahead of an evolutionary adversary. You are motivated to maintain and improve the integrity of Riot Games’ titles, fostering a competitive environment for our players. You're comfortable in being able to communicate with both players and internal stakeholders, being able to translate your subject matter expertise into tangible goals, metrics, and resolutions. Your expertise in reverse engineering, data analysis and automation, and modern game engines can enable you to detect and remove the most pervasive of threats to competitive integrity. You'll foster a culture of adaptability, persistence, and collaboration, both through your individual contributions and your leadership of large campaigns. 

Responsibilities:

  • Work with the Anti-Cheat team, across multiple disciplines, to identify, detect, and remove violators of Third Party Tools policies across Riot titles.
  • Investigate threats hands-on, integrating with cheat communities to acquire intelligence and software samples, identifying and labeling industry trends
  • Interface with samples of cheats, using tooling and reverse engineering to create accurate, effective detections.
  • Wrangle, interpret, and productionize data, automating accurate detections for cheat classes and other methods of abuse within Riot Vanguard ecosystem
  • Inform initiatives on Anti-Cheat engineering iterations, through subject matter expertise and large scale, consumable analysis
  • Represent Anti-Cheat in cross-team collaborations, informing game teams of best practices, creating processes to make design recommendations into actions.
  • Communicate with legitimate players about Anti-Cheat subjects, contributing to articles and other publications around the matter.
  • Lead Anti-Cheat Operations’ technical foundations, advocating and educating on best tech practices for the pod.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or equivalent job experience
  • 6-8 years of experience in matters of game integrity, including attacking or defending it.
  • Excellent teamwork and stakeholder management skills
  • 6-8 years of experience in data notebooking tools such as Jupyter and Databricks, with ability to both analyze and ETL large data sets
  • 6-8 years of experience in automation of internal processes and systems, utilizing languages such as Python
  • Statistical computing and analysis through programming languages like R or Python
  • Proficiency with database querying languages, particularly SQL, to make precise and actionable queries on anomalous behavior
  • Analysis and visualization of data into consumable product analytics for internal stakeholders, through usage of data notebooks and dashboarding software like Tableau
  • Technical understanding of Windows processes and memory, including CPU modes and other aspects of the operating system security suite
  • Familiar with cheat development and process instrumentation techniques
  • Expertise with statistical concepts like regression and A/B testing

Desired Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with cheating in a competitive environment, understanding the ecosystems and motivations
  • Experience with development and version control tools (Visual Studio, Git, WinDbg)
  • Direct experience with the Windows Kernel and driver development
  • Comfortable reverse engineering applications statically/dynamically
  • Knowledge of internal tooling systems, with a comfort to continually learn them

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the and . Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of and our ongoing work to build the .

 

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of 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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

  • Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
  • Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
  • Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
  • Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

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