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Riot Games

Principal Software Engineer, Product Tech-Lead - Unpublished R&D Product

Riot Games, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079


Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas, but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Principal Software Engineer (Product Technical Lead) in R&D, you are responsible for helping Riot build and deliver a brand new game! You will keep the player’s experience in mind as you develop and prioritize the long term technical plan for one of our new games. You will implement features and work collaboratively with other engineers and cross discipline leaders to deliver genre-defining experiences to our players. This position will report to the Product Engineering Lead of the product team.

Responsibilities:

Provide guidance to engineering team members while establishing and championing alignment around technical initiative areas

Implement and guide implementation of technical solutions to key product problems

Maintain a deep technical understanding of strategically important systems

Own the technical build, release, and deployment processes of the product

Ensure the team maintains a high bar for tech excellence, code maintainability, quality, and documentation standards

Partner closely with the Product Engineering Lead to cultivate and model an environment of learning, curiosity and ownership

Coordinate with technical leaders across Riot Games to utilize and contribute to existing platform infrastructure and other shared technologies

Work collaboratively with team leadership to help realize the overall vision of the game

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of professional software engineering experience

4+ years of C++, Java, and/or Golang experience

Experience as a technical leader for a game team during development and post-launch

Familiarity working in an agile environment and balancing short-term needs with long-term game health and sustainability

Experience mentoring other engineers and communicating technical concepts across disciplines

Experience shepherding technical implementation through all phases of development (pre-production, production, beta, post-launch)

Passion for creating games that focus on the player experience first

Desired Qualifications:

Experience working on a global scale SaaS game

Experience supporting a live SaaS application

Experience working with Unreal Engine

Experience working on mobile and/or multi-platform games

Experience partnering with external teams to develop technical features and capabilities

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 players' experiences, this could be your role!

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.

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.

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