Staff Software Engineer - SDK Foundations

Job Description

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains. As a Staff Software Engineer in Riot's Player Platform group, you'll work closely with world class designers, technical product managers, and engineers to overcome high-volume obstacles and to provide player value. You will play a key role in building critical path client SDKs and amazing in-game experiences used by all of Riot's games across multiple platforms.
Your expertise will help build key player experiences that empower game developers to leverage platform technologies in areas like social experiences, commerce/payments, accounts and identity to name a few. Your work will help game teams leverage some of the most used features and services across Riot. You will report to the Software Engineering Manager of the SDK Foundations team.

Responsibilities:
• Build high quality and performant client-side SDKs used by all of Riot's games to leverage critical features like network connectivity, messaging, and game engine integrations
• Develop and support our client-side SDKs running on console, desktop, and mobile used by millions of players
• Be an individual contributor on the team who creates reference designs, tackles challenging and ambiguous technical solutions, conducts architectural and code reviews
• Design, code, and improve release processes for the products and solutions produced on your team
• Mentor software engineers, influence team goals, and lead by example
• Balance short-term technical trade-offs and with long-term technical needs to ensure we are building stable, operational, extensible services and SDKs
• Develop high-quality software by writing unit, functional, and integration tests
• Partner with product owners and technical leads to build and operate features end-to-end including technical discovery, product development, and production release
• Invest in team's complete ownership of our products by participating in on-call rotation
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 6+ years deep hands-on programming experience as a software engineer and proficiency in C++ 14 or newer
• Experience contributing to a large code base with millions of active users
• Expertise with continuous development and deployments of large-scale systems
• Experience defining and delivering technical solutions to technical users.
Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working with Unreal Engine
• Experience with scripting languages like Python or TypeScript
• Experience with telemetry providers like Data Dog and/or Sentry
• Experience developing client applications and/or client SDKs that leverage highly distributed systems
• Experience with globally deployed platforms as well as distributed teams
• Experience building in-client user experiences for AAA title(s)
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!
Our Perks:
Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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.
At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you're working directly on a new player-facing experience or you're supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we're better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we're looking forward to your application.

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $192,500.00 - $269,400.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-86v619-216-73-216-161-42 in your application.