Senior Software Engineer, Riot Games
Player Platform, Revenue Protection
$161.5-227k
+ Equity
Player-focused game development platform
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Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$161.5-227k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software-engineering experience
- Proficiency in Java or Kotlin and designing distributed, fault-tolerant services
- Hands-on expertise with ETL/ELT platforms—CloverDX strongly preferred
- Strong SQL and data-modelling skills for financial reporting
- Demonstrated ownership of live services: SLOs, on-call, RCAs
Desirable
- Experience working on data- or finance-critical systems
- Experience building or integrating machine-learning models for classification, risk scoring or anomaly detection
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Working knowledge of payment-processing flows (auth, capture, chargeback) and fraud-risk concepts (velocity checks, trusted-buyer lists)
- Expertise with Kafka or other streaming platforms
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus)
- Python scripting for data-quality checks, CI test harnesses and ops automation (e.g., self-healing ETL)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll dive into cross-functional projects that contribute to team cohesion and advance broader product goals. You'll lead by example, providing other engineers with a strong model of technical excellence, thoughtful collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Revenue Protection ingests payment data from multiple global partners, reconciles every transaction end-to-end, and emits real-time fraud signals that safeguard player trust and Riot’s bottom line. We lean on CloverDX for ETL and Java/Kotlin microservices for business logic, and we’re expanding into Kafka streaming and machine-learning-driven trust-list and velocity-check models. Your architecture and coding skills will be central to making those capabilities real and multiplying our fraud-prevention impact.
- You will report to the team Software Engineering Manager
- Design & evolve CloverDX pipelines that ingest, transform and validate high-volume payment data
- Build Java/Kotlin microservices (Spring Boot, REST/async messaging) that power real-time reconciliation and fraud decisions
- Help bring ML-driven fraud-detection models to production
- Automate deployment & observability—CI/CD for Clover graphs, Docker/K8s releases, Datadog alerts, runbooks and SLOs
- Champion operational excellence: on-call rotation, incident triage, cert rotation, IAM/ACL hygiene for PCI-scope systems
- Mentor teammates & unblock analysts in SQL, Python and CloverDX best practices
Our take
Riot Games has grown into one of the world’s most prominent online and mobile game developers, due in large part to the success of its 2009 flagship title League of Legends which hosts just under seventy million users every month.
Riot is riding the wave of online gaming growth, having made a well timed switch from PC-only into mobile-based gaming, as capitalising on the rising popularity of esports, with the League of Legends World Championships one of the most watched events in the space.
However, adding further titles to its resume will be key to building on its success, as League of Legends was its only offering for the best part of a decade. Since being acquired by Chinese tech giant Tencent in 2011, the company has grown significantly in Asian markets, opening its Shanghai Game Studio in 2021 and expanding its China Game Studio Group in 2022. These two hubs will help Riot Games make further inroads in a country where PC gaming is already huge and continues to grow.
Regardless of League of Legends' success both online and in live arenas, the company nevertheless experienced a round of layoffs internationally that amounted to 11% of its workforce. Pair that with legal troubles in 2024 concerning the company’s partnership with now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, and Riot Games appears to be in a period of transition. Thanks to the strength of its gaming products, however, Riot will no doubt maintain a comfortable position within the gaming world.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2009
$8m
SERIES C
Jul 2008
$7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- 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
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Brandon Beck
(Co-Chairman)Having studied at the University of Southern California, they worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company. they left this role in September 2006 to co-found Riot Games, where they served initially as co-CEO.
Marc Merrill
(Co-Chairman)After a degree at the University of Southern California, they worked as a U.S. Bank Analyst and a Manager of Advanstar Communications. They co-founded Riot Games with Brandon in September 2006, alongside being a Principal of NaHCo3 since 2016.
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