Sr. Software Engineer - Riot Data Products, R&D / 3Rd Party

Job Description

Sr. Software Engineer (Data) - Riot Data Products, R&D/3rd Party

Engineers at Riot master their craft by building, launching, and operating games that delight players all over the world. As a Senior Software Engineer on Riot Data's R&D Studio team, you will help build title specific systems to balance, to improve the player experience, and to launch new data-empowered products. As well as help to build game agnostic tools and processes to meet the data needs of multiple titles.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Riot Data R&D Studio team, you will contribute to robust and reliable data solutions and platforms that extract value from data throughout the game development lifecycle. You'll use your expertise with large-scale data systems to help us build efficient solutions, collaborating with other engineers on the Data team, and mentoring them. You will report directly to the Manager for Riot Data's R&D Studio team.

Responsibilities:
• Work with other engineers, producers, game designers, data science and UX experts
• Handle a range of engineering problems related to data capabilities in the game engines, game servers, and backend services
• Apply software engineering best practices in your work, ensuring that you're building reliable, maintainable systems and contribute to the engineering community within Riot
• Design sustainable, reusable data marts and telemetry that can be applied to all new games
• Work with data scientists and analysts who will use your data marts to help with decisions or build services
• Safeguard player data

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of relevant work experience or a Master's degree related to the role
• Software development across multiple language (e.g. Python, Golang, C++, Java)
• Experience in analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, or any related area
• Experience with related data processing (e.g., Spark, BigQuery, DataProc) and storage systems (e.g., S3, Google Cloud Storage)
• Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, or key-value store / NoSQL-style systems

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with big-data processing technologies
• Experience with data warehousing and modeling best practices
• Experience with Unreal Editor and C++
• Experience with service development and languages such as Golang or Java
• Experience with open source ETL frameworks such as Airflow, Luigi, or similar

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information. Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

(Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $150,200 USD - $211,100 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rn5kq1-3-17-68-14-42 in your application.