Senior Security Engineer

About Scorewarrior

Scorewarrior is an independent game studio with a single mission: to excite and unite players all over the world. For over 10 years we've been pursuing it through Total Battle — a product we continue to actively and successfully grow. We're a team of 230 self-motivated professionals who know and love their craft, and we've recently begun an active company-wide adoption of AI tools.

Our home is a great office in Limassol, Cyprus. We offer a strong relocation package for you and your family, and we put real effort into making life on the island genuinely varied and interesting.

Location & format: Onsite — Limassol, Cyprus

Full relocation support provided

The mission of this role

This is a hands-on engineering role: you design and implement solutions yourself, working side by side with Infrastructure, DevOps, and development teams. Leadership experience is not required here and not expected.

Key objectives

• Strengthen cloud and infrastructure security in practice: secrets management, audit logging and controlled production access.

• Close high-impact risks: start from an honest assessment of the current state and build a consistent picture of gaps and risks as you go.

• Work secure-by-default: wherever possible, remove the security burden from teams through automation and platform-level solutions rather than rules and manual procedures.

• Roll up your sleeves: dive into what Infrastructure, DevOps, and development teams are building right now, understand it from the inside, and make security part of it.

Job requirements

• Real experience building platform and infrastructure security — you have designed and implemented security solutions yourself: not audited or monitored them, and you can walk us through the architecture, the decisions, and what you'd do differently.

• Cloud security as your core strength: Recent hands-on experience securing cloud environments.

• A strong infrastructure background. You may have grown entirely within security engineering or moved into security from DevOps, SRE, system administration, or network engineering. What matters is that your thinking is an engineer's thinking: architecture first, building over prescribing.

• The ability to explain risks with facts. You have real cases where you make technical teams see why a risk matters and why a change is needed through evidence, architecture, and concrete scenarios.

• English and Russian language at least B2 level or higher.

AppSec, SIEM, and SOC experience are useful but secondary.

Nice to have

• Infrastructure-as-Code in practice.

• Container and Kubernetes security experience.

• Scripting and automation as a habit: Python, Go, or Bash — you'd rather automate a control than write a procedure for humans to follow.

• GCP specifically. Our stack is GCP; deep experience with it will shorten your path to impact, though strong AWS/Azure experience translates well.

• Experience with securing AI tool usage.

Who this role is NOT for

We believe in being upfront about fit. This role is probably not for you if:

• Your current focus is on monitoring, alert triage and incident analysis.

• Your specialization is threat research, malware analysis, cryptography, or lab-style cybersecurity.

• Your recent work is mostly paper security: policies, compliance documents, and audits.

• You are looking for a management track or ownership of a security function right now — strategy and team building belong to the security leadership role we're hiring separately.

Why join Scorewarrior?

• A Great Place to Work. 99% employee satisfaction, low turnover, and colleagues who genuinely enjoy collaborating.

• Live and work in sunny Cyprus. We’re an office-first team in Limassol with a modern seaside workspace, and full relocation and visa support for you and your family.

• Shape a global hit. We’re the only European studio with a 4X strategy title in the world’s top-10. Our top-50 mobile game has grown 25x in revenue and audience in the last five years.

• Grow fast in a company that’s already strong. We’re independent, financially rock-solid, and expanding at startup speed, and we have never had lay-offs.

• Work where ideas win. Flat structure, collective decision-making, and honest feedback create full transparency and help you grow fast.

• Earn industry-leading rewards. High salaries, a 13th month, performance bonuses, and extra rewards for long service, marriage, or welcoming a child, and lunch every day.

• Feel supported at every stage of life. Private family health insurance, plus a monthly allowance for children’s pre-school, school, and university education.

• Your growth is our priority. From specialized training and certifications to language courses and books, you’ll have everything you need to keep learning.