Staff Software Engineer, Platform Services - Game Tech Group, Anti-Cheat
Riot Games3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve shared backend platform services supporting Vanguard client, service, and internal tooling systems.
- Own APIs and service contracts used by multiple teams, maintaining their reliability, clarity, and long-term maintainability.
- Lead development of internal tools and web applications for operations, investigations, configuration, and visibility.
- Identify and reduce systemic platform risks involving scalability, operability, security, and maintainability.
- Design and operate highly available, secure distributed backend systems.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational workflows for platform services.
- Collaborate with Anti-Cheat, Security, and Game teams as a trusted technical partner.
- Influence team direction through hands-on technical contributions, architectural judgment, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Staff-level experience building and owning backend platforms and internal tools used by multiple teams.
- Strong experience with backend service development and distributed systems, including technologies such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Significant experience building internal tools or web applications with modern web stacks such as Golang, React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs and shared services in a large or growing ecosystem.
- Comfort operating and debugging live production systems.
- Strong architectural judgment and experience influencing key technical decisions.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Experience with platform teams or internal developer tooling is desired.
- Experience designing systems with security and adversarial thinking is desired.
- Background supporting high-availability services or operational tooling is desired.
- Experience mentoring engineers at all levels is desired.
- Experience building developer platforms or sandbox environments for rapid experimentation is desired.
- Strong understanding of LLMs and agentic AI development, including their strengths and weaknesses, is desired.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy
- Flexible work schedules
- Medical, dental, and life insurance
- Parental leave for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and children
- 401(k) with company match
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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.