Staff Software Engineer, Platform Services (Anti-Cheat) - Game Tech Group
Riot Games2 days ago
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve shared backend platform services for Vanguard systems.
- Own APIs and service contracts, ensuring reliability and maintainability.
- Lead development of internal tools and web applications for operations and investigations.
- Identify and mitigate systemic risks across the platform.
- Design and operate distributed backend systems with high availability.
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and operational workflows.
- Collaborate with Anti-Cheat, Security, and Game teams.
Requirements
- Staff-level experience in building and owning backend platforms or internal tools.
- Strong experience with backend service development and distributed systems.
- Significant experience with modern web stacks for internal tools or web applications.
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs in a large ecosystem.
- Comfort operating and debugging live production systems.
- Strong architectural judgment and experience influencing technical decisions.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance.
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
- 401k with company match.
Tech Stack
AWSDockerElixirGoKubernetesNode.jsReactTypeScript
Categories
BackendGamingSecurity