Principal Software Engineer, Riot Games

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 4+ years of C++, Java, and/or Golang experience
• Experience as a technical leader for a game team during development and post-launch
• Familiarity working in an agile environment and balancing short-term needs with long-term game health and sustainability
• Experience mentoring other engineers and communicating technical concepts across disciplines
• Experience shepherding technical implementation through all phases of development (pre-production, production, beta, post-launch)
• Passion for creating games that focus on the player experience first
• For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players
• We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Desirable

• Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas, but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains
• As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering
• As a Principal Software Engineer (Product Technical Lead) in R&D, you are responsible for helping Riot build and deliver a brand new game
• You will keep the player’s experience in mind as you develop and prioritize the long term technical plan for one of our new games
• You will implement features and work collaboratively with other engineers and cross discipline leaders to deliver genre-defining experiences to our players
• This position will report to the Product Engineering Lead of the product team
• Provide guidance to engineering team members while establishing and championing alignment around technical initiative areas
• Implement and guide implementation of technical solutions to key product problems
• Maintain a deep technical understanding of strategically important systems
• Own the technical build, release, and deployment processes of the product
• Ensure the team maintains a high bar for tech excellence, code maintainability, quality, and documentation standards
• Partner closely with the Product Engineering Lead to cultivate and model an environment of learning, curiosity and ownership
• Coordinate with technical leaders across Riot Games to utilize and contribute to existing platform infrastructure and other shared technologies
• Work collaboratively with team leadership to help realize the overall vision of the game