Staff Software Engineer, Metagame- Unpublished R&D Product
Los Angeles, United States
Posted 17 hours ago
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full-time
CN Game Studio
Job Summary
Join Riot Games as a Staff Software Engineer to drive product-defining features and technical strategy for an unpublished R&D metagame product. You'll build core metagame systems, tooling, and pipelines, playing a foundational role in creating engaging player progression and personalization experiences.
About this job
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll drive important features and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering. You will help build a comprehensive ecosystem by building core metagame systems, tooling, and pipelines to rapidly iterate and deliver exciting playable experiences, playing a foundational role in validating and building the metagame layer.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of experience implementing systems in a game engine (Unity, Unreal, or equivalent).
- 2+ years of experience in C#, Java, Go, C++, Python, or other Object Oriented programming languages.
- Experience building game clients and backend services.
- Strong technical design and architecture skills; able to reason holistically about client-service boundaries.
- Experience building metagame features: progression, collections, inventory, or similar systems in games.
- Demonstrated ability to identify inefficiencies in tools, workflows, and pipelines and create solutions that remove friction for cross-discipline teams.
- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating team-wide technical capability.
- Experience with containerized microservices powering live service game features (C#, Go, Java, or similar).
- Familiarity with SQL, relational schemas, caching systems, and pub/sub infrastructure.
- Experience shipping features on a cross-platform product.
- Strong product sense, able to understand what makes a metagame system feel intuitive, rewarding, and polished.
Benefits & Perks
- Open paid time off policy
- Flexible work schedules
- Medical, dental, and life insurance
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
- 401k with company match.
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