At Riot, the business problem is to deliver compelling player experiences by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to organizational design, specifically for the VALORANT game.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- 2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team either as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead & mentor.
- 2+ years professional experience building distributed systems at scale
- 2+ years expertise with C++, Golang, or similar language(s)
- Experience working in the games industry
- Familiarity working in an agile environment
- Professional experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and coach team members to build talent over the long term
- Demonstrate a high bar of craft excellence for your team
- Take ownership of key components within VALORANT’s architecture, ensuring reliability, scalability, and long-term sustainability
- Build, operate, and support live game services, including participation in an on-call rotation
- Provide technical expertise throughout the product life cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of features while continuously improving the software engineering quality and efficiency.
- Identify, recruit, interview, and hire software engineers to help teams scale effectively.
- Cultivate your team's culture of collaboration, creativity and passion for game making
Other
- 4+ years of experience
- 2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team
- Experience working in the games industry
- Familiarity working in an agile environment
- Embodiment of player empathy and care about players' experiences
