Staff Cloud Security Engineer

Riot Security Engineers hold an in-depth knowledge of specific areas of expertise. We don't just focus on breaking things; we support teams across Riot to develop security capabilities which help protect Rioter experiences. We relish the opportunity to work with new tech stacks and product teams, each with their own unique security risk profile. At the most fundamental level, their goal is to help provide value to players and make life harder for troublemakers by protecting our internal environments.

As a Product Security Engineer, you will work closely with product teams globally to help build fun, safe and secure experiences for players. You will identify product security gaps and own projects to address them. Your deep knowledge of both the technical detail and player impact of security vulnerabilities will help you communicate potential issues to Rioters and improve the security of the player experience.

Responsibilities:

• Be a cloud security SME in our Product Security team
• Support a modern, scalable, and security focused set of internal network security tools including packet brokers, firewalls, and packet capture devices
• Drive adoption of security best practices aligned with documented internal policies. 
• Identify and contribute to the development of automating repeatable processes in the security space.
• Work with teams and individuals to provide security guardrails for their projects and day to day work.
• Participate in security reviews for internal and external products
• Educate our partners on risk, impact, and be a strong advocate for our collaborative security culture
• Author documentation and runbooks for day-to-day tasks and operations management

Required Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of experience working within a Security team with a specialisation in cloud/infrastructure security
• You’ve built and maintained secure networks in a live environment
• Deep expertise and familiarity with AWS technologies at scale
• Will have actively participated in a robust security review process
• Programming experience in Python or Go
• Experience with managing cloud infrastructure via Infrastructure-as-Code with technologies such as Terraform and Pulumi
• Ability to respond to rapid changes in prioritization and meet emergent tasks head-on
• Comfortable communicating in distributed and diverse environments and cultures.

Desired Qualifications or Experience:

• Experience with disparate cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, GCP, or Tencent.
• Knowledge of SAML/OIDC practices and familiarity with large IDPs

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players.  We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

We offer medical, dental, and vision 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 a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.

Because together we are better

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and members of Riot Games. 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 this role excites you and aligns with your passion for entertainment and live production, we’re eager to hear from you.