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Staff Software Engineer

Riot Games
Dublin, IrelandLos Angeles, California, USA
Posted 1 day ago
Last seen 7 hours ago
Active
full-time
Riot Infrastructure Team

Job Summary

Join Riot Games as a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Team to drive global scale and efficiency through innovative tooling and automation. Make a significant impact by building critical software solutions that empower game and infrastructure teams across the company.

About this job

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Riot Infrastructure Team, you will build and automate infrastructure that enables Riot Games to operate globally at scale. You will develop software and tools, ranging from Slack bots to game deployment systems, to enhance efficiency and productivity across infrastructure and game teams. This role involves pioneering solutions to scale Riot's infrastructure to the next level.

Requirements

- 7+ years experience as a software engineer with focus on infrastructure or tooling in a fast-paced, large-scale environment - Expertise with full software development life cycle - Expertise in one or more object oriented languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java, C++) - Strong experience working with containers and orchestration engines such as Kubernetes or Mesos - Experience with large-scale Cloud development - Understand core infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software at a large scale - Experience in fast pasted and matrixed organizations - Experience operating and supporting agile development, production services, and high availability - Experience developing using cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) using containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) - Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) - Understand networking - HTTP down to the network layer (TCP/IP, routing, etc.) - Experience working with international team members and colleagues

Benefits & Perks

- Medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children - Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage - Retirement benefits with a company match - Company match on donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations - Open paid time off - Play fund to broaden and deepen personal relationship with games

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