Staff Software Engineer, Riot Games

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 6+ years deep hands-on programming experience as a software engineer and proficiency in C++ 14 or newer
• Experience contributing to a large code base with millions of active users
• Expertise with continuous development and deployments of large-scale systems
• Experience defining and delivering technical solutions to technical users
• For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Desirable

• Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains
• As a Staff Software Engineer in Riot’s Player Platform group, you’ll work closely with world class designers, technical product managers, and engineers to overcome high-volume obstacles and to provide player value
• You will play a key role in building critical path client SDKs and amazing in-game experiences used by all of Riot’s games across multiple platforms
• Your expertise will help build key player experiences that empower game developers to leverage platform technologies in areas like social experiences, commerce/payments, accounts and identity to name a few
• Your work will help game teams leverage some of the most used features and services across Riot
• You will report to the Software Engineering Manager of the SDK Foundations team
• Build high quality and performant client-side SDKs used by all of Riot’s games to leverage critical features like network connectivity, messaging, and game engine integrations
• Develop and support our client-side SDKs running on console, desktop, and mobile used by millions of players
• Be an individual contributor on the team who creates reference designs, tackles challenging and ambiguous technical solutions, conducts architectural and code reviews
• Design, code, and improve release processes for the products and solutions produced on your team
• Mentor software engineers, influence team goals, and lead by example
• Balance short-term technical trade-offs and with long-term technical needs to ensure we are building stable, operational, extensible services and SDKs
• Develop high-quality software by writing unit, functional, and integration tests
• Partner with product owners and technical leads to build and operate features end-to-end including technical discovery, product development, and production release
• Invest in team’s complete ownership of our products by participating in on-call rotation