Senior Systems Travel Engineer, Riot Games
Esports Event Technology
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Player-focused game development platform
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Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5+ years as a Systems, Support or Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on building consumer or player facing products
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support Riot Esports events
- Experience with Ansible and Terraform for automation and configuration management
- Experience with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline automation
- Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, AOS)
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with imaging and deployment tools (e.g., FOG, SCCM, Autopilot)
- Experience operating & maintaining live services on Linux and Windows base, including handling emergent issues and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience with server and network hardware installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Occasionally required to lift 10/15 kilograms
- Occasionally required to push/pull road cases
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
- We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Desirable
- Experience building or maintaining global infrastructure, systems at scale
- Experience managing monitoring and alerting solutions
- Experience with scripting languages like Go, Python, Powershell, or Bash
- Experience using GIT for version control
- RHCE/RHCSA certification
What the job involves
- Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work across multiple domains
- As a Systems Engineer in the Esports Event Technology (EET) Team, you will support a team focused on building, supporting and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling and applications that power Riot's esports events around the world
- You will work in a self-guiding, cross-functional team with highly skilled individuals to ensure that Riot's infrastructure is capable of supporting all Riot Esports initiatives
- Serve as the SME for technical systems, applications and services that power our live events around the world
- Designing, supporting and maintaining our global esports infrastructure and systems
- Working on a diverse, cross-functional team
- Collaborate across departments and mentor engineering teammates
- Training and coaching our TechOps teams on technical processes and procedures to ensure successful events & efficient operations
- Working a non-standard schedule
- For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players
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
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back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Player experience first
- Dare to dream
- Thrive together
- Execute with excellence
- Stay hungry, stay humble
Company HQ
Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA
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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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