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Staff Software Engineer in USA

  • Riot Games
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities

  • Implement the foundational elements of the studio’s Digital Asset Management system and support game teams’ creative tooling ecosystems.
  • Develop, maintain, and architect robust, scalable tools for content creation workflows.
  • Lead technical execution for multi-month to year-plus initiatives and uphold engineering standards across teams.
  • Evaluate and operate AI-assisted engineering tools to improve code quality, reliability, security, performance, and developer productivity.
  • Collaborate with artists, discipline leads, production, design, UX, infrastructure, QA, gameplay engineering, and other stakeholders.
  • Champion tooling best practices and identify new internal and external developer tooling opportunities.
  • Provide documentation and training for new tools and workflows.
  • Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and solutions while helping teams navigate ambiguity.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including delivery of live or shipped products at scale.
  • 3+ years of experience working on game development tools.
  • Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, inference services, model-serving systems, data pipelines, or GPU-backed workloads.
  • Experience with Unreal Engine and awareness of upcoming Epic tools.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency in Go, C++, and C#, with familiarity with Java and TypeScript.
  • Knowledge of public cloud technologies including AWS RDS, Amazon S3, and Amazon EC2.
  • Experience working with large game teams and large codebases.
  • Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Preferred qualifications include Digital Asset Management experience, desktop application experience, and professional Unreal Engine 5 tools experience.

Benefits

  • Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance.
  • Parental leave for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and children.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Collaborative work environment focused on player empathy and individual perspectives.

Riot Games

Since 2006, Riot Games has stayed committed to changing the way video games are developed, published, and supported for players. From our first title, League of Legends, to 2020’s VALORANT; we have strived to evolve the community with growth in Esports, and expansion from games into entertainment...

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