Riot Games is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering (Services) for VALORANT's Core Services team to lead a team of engineers responsible for improving how VALORANT builds, delivers, and operates its global services footprint, including working with Tencent to improve services delivery and operations in China.
Requirements
- 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer working in services development roles.
- Professional experience driving technical direction and influencing architecture within a team.
- Expertise with C, Java, Golang, or similar language(s).
- Professional experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies.
- Professional experience building large-scale backend systems or game services.
- Professional or academic experience working with C++.
- Professional or hobby experience working with Unreal Engine
Responsibilities
- Lead development of new services
- Drive evergreen improvements to existing services
- Improve standards and frameworks to improve services development across VALORANT
- Improve the tools and pipelines used to ship and operate those services
- Work closely with technical teams in Tencent to improve services delivery and operations in China
- Ensure high technical quality of what your team produces
- Establish mechanisms to ensure your engineers have room to invent while maintaining a technical backstop for them
Other
- Manage a team of 5-10 Software Engineers across experience levels.
- Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, actively contributing across all phases of the product lifecycle, including implementation.
- Develop a technical vision for your team, working with production and product partners to ensure consistency with overall product goals. Communicate this vision to your team clearly.
- Advocate for Players, your team, and internal development customers when deciding what to build and why.
- Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team. Find and surface issues, opportunities and address them head-on. Celebrate wins.
- Coach and develop your engineering team to grow in their roles, develop technical skills, and improve their effectiveness.
- Champion and model Riot’s values, setting the tone for your team and peers.
