Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Central Technology
Riot Games16 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement infrastructure tooling, automation, and features based on stakeholder requirements.
- Reduce engineering toil and inefficiency through tools such as Slack bots, AI agents, MCP servers, and automated deployment systems.
- Identify infrastructure improvement opportunities, propose solutions, and build organizational support for implementation.
- Improve engineering standards, best practices, design quality, and coding quality.
- Collaborate with senior leadership and engineering teams across Riot to deliver solutions successfully.
- Mentor less experienced teammates and help grow the engineering team.
- Build strong cross-team relationships and support collaborative development.
- Operate and support production services, high availability, and large-scale development and deployment workflows.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience focused on infrastructure or tooling in fast-paced, large-scale environments.
- Expertise across the full software development life cycle.
- Expertise in one or more object-oriented languages, such as Python, Go, Java, or C++.
- Strong experience with containers and Kubernetes.
- Experience with large-scale cloud development and deployment using platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience with deployment technologies such as CloudBees Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with AI tools such as Codex, Windsurf, or Copilot.
- Understanding of core infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, networking, and large-scale software.
- Experience in fast-paced, matrixed organizations and with international colleagues is preferred.
- Experience operating and supporting agile development, production services, and highly available systems is preferred.
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.