Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering (Head of PC Game Security) - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat

The posting, as Riot Games wrote it

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 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, stepping into the details when needed
• Build trusted relationships with game teams as internal customers, helping them understand their cheating ecosystems, integrate Anti-Cheat effectively, and make informed tradeoffs across security, player experience, scope, and delivery
• Establish clear priorities and technical expectations, helping engineers navigate uncertainty and make sound decisions across security, compatibility, performance, and operational risk
• Partner across engineering, product, operations, and game teams to align dependencies, communicate risk, and deliver anti-cheat capabilities successfully across Riot’s portfolio

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience leading product or developing engineers, either as an Engineering Manager or as a Technical Product Lead
• Familiarity with cheat-developm

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supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

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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.