Principal Software Engineer, Riot Games

• You will bring a deep passion for the experience of Riot players and, by extension, that of its developers
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, or infrastructure experience
• 3+ years of with Infrastructure as Code experience
• 3+ years of experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• 2+ years of experience as a technical lead
• Have been responsible for driving the design and execution of organization-sized efforts (1-year+ scope), including requirements gathering, planning, testing, and release or deployment
• Expertise with automated build systems
• Expertise with C#
• Experience setting up and supporting the Perforce branching strategy for a significantly complex and large scale project
• Experience with one or more shell languages (e.g. bash, bat, powershell)
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams at scale

Desirable

• Want to lead technical development of the VALORANT development platform? As a Principal Software Engineer on VALORANT’s Build Platforms team, you will drive efforts across multiple teams to improve and rethink the technologies depended on to deliver VALORANT into the hands of tens of millions of players each month
• You will work on improving the iteration flow for hundreds of developers with the opportunity to improve the experience of designers, artists and engineers alike
• Your work will lay a critical foundation for teams across the globe as they work to delight players by adding new features, skins, maps and agents to our game
• In addition, you will support our aspirations to expand to additional platforms and titles
• You will lead the design and execution of technical solutions that VALORANT developers rely on to provide joy to players in a sustainable, consistent, and efficient manner across PC and console platforms
• In service of that goal, your work will touch a diverse set of technical areas in order to address needs wherever they exist
• You will draw on not only your deep technical expertise, but also your abilities to communicate, collaborate, mentor, and inspire across the organization
• You will lead without authority, marshaling resources from various disciplines and holding teams to our high technical standards
• As a technical leader, you will also advise studio leadership on major technical decisions, helping to set the technical direction for the game
• This role will report to the Senior Engineering Manager Tech Lead for VALORANT Foundations
• Be hands-on in development, writing excellent code that sets a high standard for other engineers
• Drive the ideation and process of setting technical direction within the business unit, including advising leadership on prioritization of work efforts and buy/build decisions for major system components
• Lead the technical execution of multi-month to year-plus work efforts across the business unit, holding teams to established standards
• Help teams navigate ambiguity and complexity by breaking down problems, identifying risks, and clearly communicating trade-offs
• Work on a range of tech stacks including underlying infrastructure, build and test automation, release pipelines, and developer tooling for VALORANT’s client, server, services, and developer tooling
• Work with stakeholders across the organization to address their pain points and exceed their expectations for what continuous delivery game development can be
• Be a standard-bearer and role model of Riot values for your team and others
• Be a force multiplier for your team. Mentor senior engineers on your team and enable them to deliver complex projects
• Represent VALORANT in collaboration with central Riot teams and other Riot studios on co-development and technology sharing