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Riot Games is looking to optimize the player experience for VALORANT by ensuring smooth server performance and pushing the limits of new and future hardware. The Senior Software Engineer will help achieve these performance goals across server-side systems and services.

Requirements

• Expertise with C++, C, or similar programming languages
• Strong background in systems performance, including CPU, memory, I/O, and networking
• Expertise with profiling tools, benchmarking frameworks, and performance analysis.
• Direct experience as a performance engineer
• Experience in profiling and optimizing large-scale, real-time or multiplayer server systems.
• Experience running, scaling, and debugging live production systems at global scale.
• Experience with Linux, AWS, and Tencent Cloud

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering and Infrastructure to realize VALORANT’s performance goals
• Lead performance analysis and optimization efforts across server-side systems and services.
• Profile applications, analyze system resource usage, and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Develop and maintain automated performance benchmarks, tooling, and monitoring systems.
• Define performance metrics, KPIs, and best practices for server optimization.
• Optimize VALORANT servers and services for compute, memory usage, and latency
• Mentor and coach junior members to build talent over the long term

Other

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, or Solutions Architect
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or relevant professional experience
• Success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players.
• Embody player empathy and care about players' experiences
• Open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules.