Senior Software Engineer, Riot Games
League Studio / Chemtech Services
$161.5-227k
+ Incentive Compensation + Equity
Player-focused game development platform
Be an early applicant
Player-focused game development platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$161.5-227k
+ Incentive Compensation + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most player-focused game company in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of deep hands-on programming experience in one of the following languages: C/C++, Java, Go, Python, C#
- Experience operating and maintaining live web services and troubleshooting live issues
- Experience developing fault-tolerant distributed systems from the ground up, including requirements-gathering, architecture design, project breakdown, and execution
- Experience defining team-level technical processes, such as code reviews and testing
Desirable
- Experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure)
- Experience developing and operating services at scale
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- Riot Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives
- You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Chemtech Services team for League Studio, you'll write core backend services and tools to ensure high global quality of service for games in League Studio
- You'll use your experience with platforms and microservices to build reliable, scalable systems that are easy to understand and operate
- You'll also draw on your experience with engineering best practices to ensure that our testing and deployment tech is top of the line
- You'll work with other backend service teams and influence League Studio-wide technical decisions
- Contribute to the design and building of services required to support League Studio Games within Chemtech Services
- Work in a variety of different technical capacities, contributing to code bases in multiple languages and tech stacks
- Write and review reliable maintainable code, and author architectural design documents
- Work with product and engineering leadership to identify opportunities in the game space that will require or benefit from new service development or refinement
- Coordinate work and maintain relationships with partner service teams across the Riot Games ecosystem
- Be on rotational on-call for live product support and operational assessment
- Work collaboratively with non technical customers to accomplish deliverables
- Helps grow their own engineering team by participating in the interview process
- 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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
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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