Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering (Head of PC Game Security) - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat
About this role
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.
As a Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering, you will lead the team responsible for the ongoing development and evolution of Vanguard Anti-Cheat's Windows client services. You'll set technical direction, shape priorities, and ensure the team delivers secure, reliable capabilities across Vanguard's Anti-Cheat suite in a timely manner. While your primary focus will be enabling the team and driving outcomes, your strong fluency in cheat communities and techniques will allow you to guide architecture, challenge technical decisions, and step directly into complex debugging or investigations when needed. You'll help the team anticipate and analyze emerging cheat techniques, then translate those findings into effective detections, mitigations, and preventative controls. You will report directly to the Sr. Manager of Anti-Cheat Engineering.
Responsibilities:
- 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 resil...