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

• 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

Total funding: $15m

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.