Improve how VALORANT builds, delivers, and operates its global services footprint by leading multiple teams of engineers responsible for development of new services, evergreen improvements to existing services, and improving standards, frameworks, tools, and pipelines.
Requirements
- 6+ years professional experience as a software engineer working in services development roles.
- 4+ years as an Engineering Manager leading engineers and engineering managers.
- Professional experience driving technical direction and influencing architecture at team of teams scale.
- Expertise with C, Java, Golang, or similar language(s).
- Professional experience with Lean or Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban, etc).
- Professional experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies.
- Professional experience building large-scale backend systems or game services.
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
- Partner with discipline and product leadership to shape product vision and define the technical direction that improves how VALORANT builds, delivers, and operates its services and environments.
- Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, actively contributing across all phases of the product lifecycle, including implementation.
- Raise technical standards and refine processes to drive more effective product delivery and operations.
Other
- Lead and support a team of 15–20 engineers and engineering managers across Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sydney, consisting of both individual contributors and people managers.
- Oversee a combination of direct and dotted-line reports, working closely with a Senior Manager in Sydney to ensure alignment for shared responsibilities.
- Collaborate effectively with geo-distributed teams across Riot and Tencent, adjusting schedules as needed to accommodate time zones.
- Champion and model Riot’s values, setting the tone for your team and peers.
- Contribute to the team’s support rotation.
