Manager, Anti-Cheat Engineering - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat

Los Angeles · 2+ years experience · Posted Sep 30, 2026

At a glance

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.
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.

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

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, with the ability to evaluate designs, guide technical discussions, and engage directly when complex problems require it
Experience leading work on low-level, security-sensitive systems and helping teams navigate tradeoffs across security, reliability, compatibility, performance, and delivery
Working knowledge of Windows security model and security feature suite such as Secure Boot, HVCI, and measured boot attestation