The Infrastructure group at Riot builds the foundation that enables our games to operate globally and securely at scale, ensuring the highest levels of infrastructure performance, availability, and quality for our players.
Requirements
- Expertise cloud computing with a particular focus on AWS technologies
- Experience working with Python or Golang
- Good understanding of DevOps practices and automation
- Expertise in project management, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems.
- Experience delivering both multi-month projects and short, targeted engagements, establishing clear deliverables and reporting on progress.
- Familiarity with infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software design at high scale.
- Experience in performance engineering
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 4-10 cloud and software engineers; coaching them, overseeing performance management, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring high quality delivery and best in class operational results.
- Stay hands-on with your team's tech, overseeing the technical design and deliverables of the team and working with your team's most senior engineers.
- Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams at Riot to foster cross-team collaboration.
- Be accountable for your team's deliverables.
- Contribute to all parts of the employee life-cycle, including recruiting, hiring, managing, and mentoring engineers.
- Manage the health and performance of the engineering team with empathy and authenticity, building trust and inspiring them to overcome challenges.
- Champion automation, incident response, and continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are not only robust but also evolve efficiently to meet player demands.
Other
- 5+ years experience as a software/systems/performance engineer or in a role directly supporting engineering teams
- 3+ years experience managing an engineering team
- Collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work.
- Open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match.
