Gaming Threat Intelligence Analyst

The role

This person will identify, investigate, and disrupt individuals who cheat, defraud, or abuse Epic's games and players. They will track cheat developers, account sellers, and fraud operations to support mitigations and legal action.

What you will do

• Investigate cheat developers, sellers, resellers, account sellers, tournament cheaters, DDoS providers, and exploit developers
• Identify people, networks, and infrastructure behind cheat products and fraud schemes
• Investigate fraud and abuse across the ecosystem including V-Bucks and Support-A-Creator fraud
• Monitor cheat communities and underground markets for new features, techniques, and trends
• Track account compromise methods and social programming tactics used against players
• Research and maintain Epic's gaming threat landscape
• Prioritize actors by impact and build evidence packages for takedowns and litigation
• Work with external intel partners on reporting, cheat testing, and attribution
• Support incident response with research on cheats, exploits, compromised accounts, and leaks
• Write case reports and contribute to quarterly threat reporting

Required qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Generous benefit plans
• Discretionary incentive programs

About the company

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company that has been making award-winning games and engine technology for over 30 years.