Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.
VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter. As a Staff Software Engineer on the VALORANT team you will be responsible for building metagame client features and scalable backend services. You'll influence the technical direction for how VALORANT services are built, scale and are operated in production, and collaborate with design to build smooth and intuitive player-facing in-game experiences. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Competitive team.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and deliver in-game client features enabling players to have a world-class experience playing with others
- Collaborate closely with producers, game designers and UX experts
- Integrate with central technology to provide players with social and player behaviour features
- Design, build, and deliver large scale backend services to support millions of players
- Support live services for the game (this role involves an on-call commitment)
- Serve as technical lead for a team of 2 other engineers and several other interdisciplinary team members, representing the team's technical needs both internally and externally
- Mentor and onboard new team members (with an opportunity to manage them if desired)
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience acting as the tech-lead for a team or major feature
- Professional experience building large scale backend systems or game services
- Professional experience building player - or user- facing frontend experiences (e.g. web, mobile, game)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience mentoring more junior software engineers
- Experience managing 1-2 software engineers or engineering interns
- Experience working with dependencies across multiple product teams and managing stakeholder relationships
- Professional experience building game features for a AAA game
- Professional experience working with Golang
- Professional or academic experience working with C++
- Professional or hobby experience working with Unreal Engine
Our Perks
We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games
It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).
