Principal Software Engineer - Developer Connections, Game Release
Riot Games2 months ago
Base Salary
$229k - $320k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical strategy for Riot’s centralized game release capabilities.
- Partner with game teams to address real-world release constraints and production needs.
- Lead architecture across game clients, servers, backend services, content, configuration, and publishing workflows.
- Drive cross-team technical alignment and decisions that improve release safety and predictability.
- Diagnose complex technical blockers and work hands-on with engineers to deliver production solutions.
- Advise leadership, influence adoption of shared capabilities, and raise engineering and operational standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience and experience developing and shipping at least one live-operated game.
- Deep expertise in the end-to-end game shipping lifecycle, production workflows, platform constraints, and live operations.
- Broad experience across game clients, game servers, backend services, configuration, content pipelines, or release orchestration.
- Strong hands-on experience designing, building, debugging, and maintaining large-scale production systems.
- Ability to connect architecture decisions to player experience and operational stability.
- Proven crisis response, root-cause analysis, problem-solving, technical leadership, and cross-team influence.
- Preferred experience includes release, deployment, or publishing systems; multi-platform or multi-region game shipping; shared technical capabilities; live game operations; and developer infrastructure.
- Preferred experience includes defining technical direction, moving bespoke workflows toward common patterns, and building trust with game teams and senior technical partners.
Benefits
- Open paid time off and flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Parental leave for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and children.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Additional incentive compensation and equity are offered.
- The Los Angeles posting lists a base salary range of $229,200.00–$319,500.00 USD.
Categories
Gaming
About Riot Games
Riot Games develops and publishes online multiplayer games for PC and mobile, including League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. The company operates free-to-play titles monetized via in-game purchases and runs global esports leagues and events around its franchises. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Riot is a subsidiary of Tencent with offices worldwide.