Riot Games
StaffSoftwareEngineer
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Lead candidates.
“Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games. Skills: Infrastructure, Tooling, Automation, Cloud. Design solutions and features. Drive improvements to standards”
What You'll Achieve.
Enable games to operate globally at scale; Automate all aspects of infrastructures; Enable teams to be more efficient and productive; Reduce toil and inefficiency via tooling and automation; Help us scale to the next level; Ensure successful implementation
Industry & Context.
Solve critical problem areas
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years experience as a software engineer with focus on infrastructure or tooling in a fast-paced, large-scale environment, Expertise with full software development life cycle, Expertise in one or more object oriented languages (i. e. Python, Go, Java, C++), experience working with containers and orchestration engines such as Kubernetes or Mesos, Experience with large-scale Cloud development, Understand core infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software at a large scale
Nice to Have
Experience in fast pasted and matrixed organizations, Experience operating and supporting agile development, production services, and high availability, Experience developing using cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) using containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), Understand networking - HTTP down to the network layer (TCP/IP, routing, etc.), Experience working with international team members and colleagues, past studies, experience, personal relationship with games, player empathy, care about players' experiences
What You'll Do.
Design solutions and features
Drive improvements to standards
Look for efficiency opportunities
Rally support for proposals
Work with senior leadership
Build healthy relationships
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work across all infrastructure and game teams; Collaborate with other teams across infrastructure; Collaborate across Riot; Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams; Foster cross-team collaboration; Work with international team members
Full Job Description
As a part of the Riot Infrastructure Team, you'll be part of the core group of engineers that build our infrastructure that enables our games to operate globally at scale. You will work across all infrastructure and game teams to automate all aspects of our infrastructures to enable teams to be more efficient and productive by building software and tools. If you are looking to have an impact across different aspects of Riot infrastructure, join us and pioneer solutions that will help us scale to the next level. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Team, you’ll be part of a team that is focused on enabling Riot engineers to reduce toil and inefficiency via tooling and automation. The tools that you could be building can range from a Slack bot to games deployment. You will support the team as it collaborates with other teams across not just infrastructure but also across Riot to solve critical problem areas where tooling and automation are keys to the solution. This role may be performed from Dublin, Ireland or Los Angeles, California. Responsibilities Design solutions and features based on requirements and agreements with our stakeholders using our standard frameworks and best practices Drive improvements to our standards and best practices where necessary Continually looking for efficiency and improvement opportunities within our infrastructure, propose solutions and rally support for your proposal. Work with senior leadership across organizations to ensure successful implementation Lead by example on quality design and coding standards Help grow the team through mentoring and leveling up of less experienced teammates Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams at Riot to foster cross-team collaboration. Required Qualifications 7+ years experience as a software engineer with focus on infrastructure or tooling in a fast-paced, large-scale environment Expertise with full software development life cycle Expertise in one or more object oriente
Applying for this Staff Software Engineer role?
Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.
ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED
What do employees actually say about Riot Games?
Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.