Senior Security Engineer, Player Security
Riot Games·Los Angeles, USA·Posted 4 November 2026
About the role
As a Security Engineer on the Player Security team, you will help protect player accounts and Riot’s broader service ecosystem from attacks and abuse. You will build analytical capabilities, develop data-driven detection methods, and investigate how threat actors operate across our systems. Working closely with engineering, data, and security teams, you will help improve existing services and create new solutions that provide millions of players with a safe and secure gaming experience. This role is well suited to someone with experience in security engineering, data analysis, and building scalable data or event-driven pipelines. Responsibilities: Analyze large datasets to understand attacker behavior and identify opportunities to strengthen our 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.…
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