Jobs at Riot Games

Develop and support globally distributed matchmaking, skill, and rank services for millions of players. Build and operate features end to end, write comprehensive tests, participate in on-call rotations, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on high-scale distributed systems, microservices, API development, and optimizing matchmaking and skill algorithms.

Lead vision, strategy, and product discovery for Riot's Social SDK. Drive roadmap, manage stakeholder relationships with game teams, prioritize backlog, define SLAs, and collaborate with engineering, design, and QA to deliver scalable social platform features (voice/text chat, presence, shared interfaces).

Leads Riot Games’ global Player Support experience strategy, defining end-to-end digital, AI-enabled, self-service, and human-assisted journeys. Owns experience metrics, journey improvements, support technology direction, and cross-functional partnerships with Product, Engineering, and Operations. Builds and leads a multidisciplinary organization, using research, analytics, experimentation, automation, and operational insights to improve player outcomes at global scale.

Manage and mentor a software engineering team developing VALORANT gameplay cosmetics. Own premium content technology across artist workflows, out-of-game experiences, and in-game usage. Establish technical vision, guide feature design and delivery, collaborate with art, design, product, and technology teams, recruit engineers, and improve engineering quality. Support team growth, culture, accountability, and long-term talent development while working directly in the codebase.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on development for Teamfight Tactics build services, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, release management, developer tools, and foundational deployment systems. Optimize build performance, monitoring, metrics, and workflows across mobile and desktop environments. Collaborate with gameplay, backend, and core technology teams, drive architectural decisions, maintain engineering standards, support production and internal builds, and mentor engineers.

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Riot’s esports publishing platform. Lead global live operations, real-time data features, broadcast tooling, tournament services, authentication scaling, and esports data commercialization. Partner with engineering and technical teams on architecture, scalability, prioritization, and delivery while safeguarding 99.9% infrastructure reliability during major events. Translate customer and ecosystem needs into requirements, KPIs, OKRs, and shipped products.

Lead a team of 5+ engineers building scalable game-platform services (game provisioning, data delivery, leaderboards). Manage hiring, onboarding, performance, and career growth. Own technical roadmap, design reviews, code reviews, and live service operations including on-call troubleshooting and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliability and scalability.

Lead multiple engineering teams for VALORANT, overseeing service development, performance management, and cross-team collaboration, while driving technical direction and operational excellence.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games, you'll enhance developer experience and efficiency across VALORANT by designing tools, mentoring junior engineers, and influencing best practices in a collaborative environment.

Lead development of VALORANT build and developer-facing platforms. Improve iteration workflows across local development, Unreal build/cook systems, CI, release infrastructure, and tooling. Drive architecture and long-term initiatives, resolve cross-system bottlenecks, collaborate with stakeholders, mentor engineers, and participate in support rotation.

Lead a team of 5–10 engineers building and improving VALORANT core game services. Define technical vision, drive architecture and platform improvements, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-region delivery with Tencent, ensure service quality and reliability, participate in on-call rotation, and advocate for players and internal customers.