Software Engineer - Central Technology, Infrastructure (Optimize & Protect)
Riot Games15 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Develop solutions for secure and scalable operations of Riot’s global network backbone and UDP game traffic.
- Break down and independently execute engineering work with general direction from technical leadership.
- Follow design, coding, and engineering quality standards and participate in code reviews.
- Identify efficiency and improvement opportunities and propose solutions.
- Collaborate with technical leadership and other engineers to ensure successful implementation.
- Participate in routine, emergent, and on-call work involving uptime, SLAs, and root-cause analyses.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience focused on infrastructure or tooling in a fast-paced, large-scale environment.
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience with one or more object-oriented languages, such as Go, C++, Python, or Java.
- Experience with large-scale cloud and/or physical infrastructure ecosystems.
- Understanding of core infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and large-scale software.
- Preferred experience in fast-paced and matrixed organizations and in supporting agile development, production services, and high availability.
- Preferred experience with AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Argo CD.
- Preferred experience working with the Linux kernel, writing software or firmware for hardware environments, and understanding networking from HTTP through TCP/IP, routing, and DNS.
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.
Tech Stack
AnsibleArgo CDAWSC++DockerGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform
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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.