Anti-Cheat Engineering Manager

Riot’s Anti-Cheat team is versatile and passionate about its craft. We understand the player impact of cheating in games and are focused on setting the highest bar for the integrity of multiplayer games. We relish the opportunity to work with low-level systems and take pride in developing creative, rigorous defenses against adversaries. At the most fundamental level, our goal is to promote the best player experience by protecting the legitimacy of their favorite games.

• Manage, identify, recruit, interview, and hire engineers to help the team scale effectively.
• Set direction and drive high-impact anti-cheat capabilities from ambiguity through production across user-mode, kernel-mode, and obfuscation tooling surfaces.
• Lead the team in rapidly translating emerging threats into resilient detections and preventative countermeasures that can be safely deployed at scale.
• Balance immediate threat response with proactive technical investments that anticipate adversaries’ next moves or eliminate common abuse vectors entirely.
• Guide and participate in complex investigations involving highly evasive cheats and operating-system manipulation techniques.
• Ensure the team can diagnose and resolve complex compatibility, reliability, and security issues in highly opaque environments.
• Build trusted relationships with game teams as internal customers.
• Establish clear priorities and technical expectations.
• Partner across engineering, product, operations, and game teams to align dependencies, communicate risk, and deliver anti-cheat capabilities successfully across Riot’s portfolio.

• 2+ years of experience leading product or developing engineers, either as an Engineering Manager or as a Technical Product Lead.
• Familiarity with cheat-development or game-security research communities and a practical understanding of modern cheat techniques and anti-cheat evasions.
• Strong understanding of Anti-Cheat architectures.
• Experience leading work on low-level, security-sensitive systems.
• Working knowledge of Windows security model and security feature suite such as Secure Boot, HVCI, and measured boot attestation.

• Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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.