Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst
- Montreal, QC, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- 4+ years of experience in threat intelligence, online investigations, anti-cheat, fraud, or trust and safety
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
2–5 years
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
INFOSEC
What We Do
Keep Epic’s networks, hardware, and people safe from security risks. Install security measures and operate software to protect systems and information infrastructure, including firewalls and encryption programs. Document issues as they arise and assess & report any impact caused.
What You'll Do
We're seeking a Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst to identify, investigate, and disrupt the people who cheat, defraud, or abuse Epic's games and players. You'll track cheat developers, account sellers, and fraud operations back to the people and infrastructure behind them, then work with Ecosystem Security and Legal to turn that research into mitigations, enforcement, and legal action. This role owns investigations from first lead to finished report with minimal oversight.
In this role, you will
- Investigate cheat developers, sellers and resellers, account sellers, tournament cheaters, DDoS providers, and exploit developers targeting Epic's games
- Identify the people, networks, and infrastructure behind cheat products and fraud schemes, not only the products themselves
- Investigate fraud and abuse across the ecosystem, including V-Bucks fraud, Support-A-Creator fraud, and map payout fraud
- Monitor cheat communities and underground markets for new features, techniques, and trends, and feed findings into technical mitigations and enforcement decisions
- Track account compromise methods and social engineering tactics used against players
- Research and maintain Epic's gaming threat landscape, including the leading threat actors, their methods, and where they are likely to move next
- Prioritize actors by impact and build evidence packages that support takedowns, payment disruption, and litigation, and support Legal throughout the legal process
- Work with external intel partners on reporting, cheat testing, and attribution, and exchange intelligence with gaming industry peers
- Support incident response with research on cheats, exploits, compromised accounts, and leaks
- Write case reports and contribute to quarterly threat reporting, and own small projects from the team backlog end to end
- 4+ years of experience in threat intelligence, online investigations, anti-cheat, fraud, or trust and safety
- Working knowledge of how cheat, account selling, or fraud ecosystems operate
- Strong OSINT skills, including pivoting on handles, accounts, storefronts, payment details, domains, and hosting
- Experience with threat intelligence platforms such as Flashpoint, Recorded Future, or similar
- Comfortable querying data in SQL or Splunk, with basic Python
- Organized case management (Jira or similar) and evidence documentation that holds up to legal review
- Clear report writing for technical, legal, and leadership audiences
- Availability for on-call rotation
We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
About Us
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Investigate cheat developers, account sellers, fraud operations, and other actors targeting Epic’s games by tracing their identities, networks, and infrastructure. Produce evidence-based reports and intelligence that support technical mitigations, enforcement, takedowns, payment disruption, legal action, and incident response.
Requirements
Candidates should have at least four years of experience in threat intelligence, online investigations, anti-cheat, fraud, or trust and safety, along with strong OSINT skills and knowledge of gaming cheat, account-selling, or fraud ecosystems. The role also requires experience with threat intelligence platforms, SQL or Splunk, basic Python, organized case management, legally robust evidence documentation, clear report writing, and availability for an on-call rotation.
Skills
- Threat Intelligence
- Online Investigations
- Open-Source Intelligence
- Anti-Cheat
- Fraud Investigation
- Trust and Safety
- Attribution
- SQL
- Splunk
- Python
- Evidence Documentation
- Case Management
- Report Writing
- Incident Response
- Legal Support
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Telemedicine
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Well-Being Program
- Therapy and Coaching
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Security & Safety
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Legal
Keywords
- Gaming Threat Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Open-Source Intelligence
- Cheat Developers
- Account Selling
- Fraud Operations
- Tournament Cheating
- DDoS Providers
- Exploit Developers
- V-Bucks Fraud
- Support-A-Creator Fraud
- Map Payout Fraud
- Account Compromise
- Social Engineering
- Underground Markets
- Threat Actors
- Attribution
- Flashpoint
- Recorded Future
- SQL
- Splunk
- Python
- Jira
- Evidence Packages
- Legal Review
- Incident Response
- Technical Mitigations
- Enforcement
- Takedowns
- Payment Disruption