Staff Software Engineer, Riot Games

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of experience implementing systems in a game engine (Unity, Unreal, or equivalent)
• 2+ years of experience in C#, Java, Go, C++, Python, or other Object Oriented programming languages
• Experience building game clients and backend services
• Strong technical design and architecture skills; able to reason holistically about client-service boundaries
• Experience building metagame features: progression, collections, inventory, or similar systems in games
• Demonstrated ability to identify inefficiencies in tools, workflows, and pipelines and create solutions that remove friction for cross-discipline teams
• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating team-wide technical capability
• For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Desirable

• As a Staff Software Engineer on an unpublished R&D product, you will drive product-defining features, influence technical strategy, and multiply the effectiveness of your team
• You will help build a comprehensive ecosystem by building core metagame systems, tooling, and pipelines to rapidly iterate and deliver exciting playable experiences
• You will play a foundational role in validating and building the metagame layer: everything around the core gameplay loop that enables progression, collection, personalization, and long-term engagement
• You will work in a small, high-performing strike team to bring the vision to life quickly and sustainably, establishing the service and client architecture, pipelines, and content creation workflows
• This role will report to the project’s Engineering Lead
• Collaborate with other disciplines such as game design, product, and tech leads to define and implement early metagame systems
• Drive technical design, architecture, and implementation for new features across the client and backend microservices that support metagame functionality
• Establish sustainable workflows and tools to accelerate content creation and iteration for metagame-facing systems
• Build and refine metagame UI screens and data models in engine, ensuring high clarity, responsiveness, and scalability across cross-platform
• Identify and surface technical risks early, guiding the team toward low-risk architectural decisions