As a Technical Artist focused on Tools/Pipeline, you’ll employ your expert-level knowledge of 3D tools and problem-solving skills to build tools, maintain pipelines and provide technical support for artists on their most critical missions. You will critique work, mentor fellow Rioters and foster the long-term growth of an ambitious group of artists. 

As a Principal Technical Artist on an unpublished R&D product, you will architect and lead the end-to-end art production pipeline for an upcoming title moving from prototype through release. You will build best-in-class, scalable art workflows that empower internal teams and external partners to deliver high-quality assets with speed, consistency, and performance integrity. This role sits at the intersection of Art, Engineering, and Design, and is accountable for ensuring that art pipelines are performant, production-ready, and built for scale. You will report directly to the Director of Game Production.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and maintain scalable art production pipelines across Character, Animation, Environment, UI, and VFX.
• Define and uphold technical standards for asset creation, integration, and optimization for game performance.
• Build tools, scripts, and automation that improve iteration speed and production reliability.
• Develop rigging systems and DCC workflows (Maya or equivalent) that integrate cleanly into Unreal.
• Establish clear asset specs and onboarding documentation for external partners.
• Implement validation systems and quality gates to ensure assets meet performance and visual standards.
• Partner with Engineering on engine workflows, shaders, runtime performance, and build stability.
• Collaborate with Art and Design to translate creative goals into scalable technical solutions.
• Identify pipeline bottlenecks and resolve production risks ahead of milestones.
• Support artists hands-on while continuously improving workflows.
• Ensure art systems are stable and performant throughout the product life cycle.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Art or Pipeline Engineering in game development.
• Proven experience building and scaling production-ready art pipelines through release.
• Strong expertise in game engines (i.e. Unreal Engine), including asset workflows and performance profiling.
• Advanced proficiency in Maya (or comparable DCC tools), including rigging and export workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency in C++ and/or C#.
• Experience supporting external vendors or distributed development teams.
• Experience with version control systems (such as Perforce and git)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building automated asset validation and CI-integrated tooling.
• Experience transitioning projects from prototype to full production.
• Background in both hands-on rigging/tool development and high-level pipeline strategy.
• Experience shipping at least one game through late production and launch.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll work alongside other engineers to implement technical solutions at a company-wide scale. You’ll collaborate with teams to ensure high quality and stack applicability, and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Content Access Platform (CAP) team, you will be responsible for the design and operation of numerous back end services that are the foundation of all of Riot’s games worldwide. The Content Access Platform team owns and operates large-scale, globally distributed systems that support millions of players and fans. Our systems and services power a wide variety of in-game experiences ranging from missions and battle passes, to virtual currencies and player inventories. Through collaboration with internal platform teams and Riot’s game development teams, you’ll identify opportunities to centralize functionality and accelerate development by creating systems that are easy to use, scalable, reliable, and deployed around the globe. Your role will also extend beyond coding – you'll be a visionary leader, defining domain architecture and aligning technology strategies with enterprise goals. You'll mentor teams, drive innovation, and champion solutions that showcase the immense value of our work to Riot’s game development teams and players. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Content Access Platform team within Player Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and drive the design and construction of critical, large scale services that fuel Riot’s thriving ecosystem for virtual goods.
• Lead the development and execution of a long-term service architecture strategy that delivers scalable, high-performance, and reliable solutions that support Riot’s strategic goals.
• Be a center of innovation, helping the team identify new technologies and new approaches to solving hard engineering problems.
• Collaborate and communicate with teams and technical leaders across Riot to resolve cross organizational engineering challenges.
• Implement and operate essential services used by Riot engineers and millions of Riot gamers world-wide.
• Work with the team to level-up systems design, infrastructure, quality, and operational capabilities.
• Be part of a rotational on-call schedule for live product and internal customer support.
• Contribute to the growth of the team and its members through technical leadership and mentoring.
• Work closely with non-technical partners and customers to understand their vision, clarify requirements, and drive delivery of features.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience, with a focus on back end services
• Prior experience as a technical leader setting technical vision and building alignment with senior level engineering leaders across multiple teams
• Experience developing large-scale, performant, distributed solutions on cloud infrastructure

Desired Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with Cloud Platform providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure (AWS preferred)
• Experience with building services using Java, Kotlin, or Go (Java/Kotlin preferred)
• Experience with performance analysis and optimization
• Experience with event driven architectures and technologies (Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis, etc.)
• Experience leading and mentoring small engineering teams

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide an engineering team through all the phases of the software development and operations lifecycle. You’ll also serve as a people manager, mentor, and coach for the engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability.

The Content Access Platform (CAP) team runs large-scale, globally distributed systems for millions of players. CAP creates the systems that power the purchasing and fulfillment experiences that all of Riot's players use. Custom catalogs for virtual goods, a full featured gifting system, and a robust, multi-stage fulfillment pipeline are only a few of the mission critical services the team builds and operates. Your passion and relentless drive to deliver players value will help us unlock and power new experiences that delight our players. As a Software Engineering Manager within the CAP group of teams, you will lead the engineering team that builds and operates the services that enable game teams to successfully ship their content to players. You will partner with the teams that create every Riot game, central technology teams, and teams in Tencent to ensure we are making excellent decisions, upholding a high quality bar, and operating efficiently in service of those players. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager for the Content Access Platform group of teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 6-10 Software and QA Engineers; coaching them, providing performance management, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring positive results
• Partner and collaborate with Product Leads, Delivery Leads, and Technical Leads within the team and within Content Access Platform to align on the plan the team executes against
• Align with service teams across Content Access Platform, and the wider Player Platform business unit, on product configuration pipelines and tooling, and best practices for using them
• Support the technical vision and roadmap by allocating engineers and skill sets to meet goals and deliver results
• Own the interviewing and onboarding process for new engineering team members
• Be accountable for the technical health of the products owned by the team
• Stay hands-on with the team's tech, overseeing the technical design and deliverables of the team and working with the team's technical leadership
• Regularly engage with the codebase by participating in code reviews and non-critical tasks
• Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams across Riot globally, in order to foster cross-team collaboration

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer, preferably on technical product teams that built tooling for services and APIs
• 2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team either as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead
• Experience managing engineers and actively participating in their growth and development
• Experience recruiting candidates and growing an engineering team
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and software at a high scale
• Experience operating and maintaining live services, including handling emergent issues and on-call troubleshooting

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building services using Java, Kotlin, or Go
• Experience developing using cloud infrastructure (such as AWS, GCP), using containers and orchestration (such as Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (such as Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience with relational databases (such as MySQL)
• Experience with event driven architectures and technologies (such as Kafka)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot Engineers bring deep technical expertise while embracing cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver meaningful player experiences. As a Software Engineer III focused on Meta Systems, you will build and evolve the systems that shape a player’s journey outside of moment-to-moment gameplay — including progression, social features, quests, customization, and long-term engagement systems.

As a Staff Software Engineer on an unpublished R&D product, you will design and deliver robust metagame systems that connect gameplay, player identity, and progression. You will partner closely with design, UX, production, Services, and Foundations teams to implement scalable, maintainable systems that are performant in-engine and resilient across client-service and engine boundaries. You will independently own features from technical design through production readiness, ensuring high-quality execution in a live service environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and independently drive the implementation of large-scale metagame systems (progression, social features, quests, customization) from technical design through high-quality execution and polish.
• Collaborate closely with Services and Foundations teams to integrate Meta systems with core backend and central services capabilities, ensuring scalable architecture and seamless persistence across client-service and engine boundaries.
• Develop clean, extensible C++ systems within Unreal Engine, emphasizing maintainability and performance, and translate UX specifications into functional in-game UI implementations.
• Build and maintain robust Unreal Editor tooling to empower designers and content creators to author and tune Meta systems efficiently.
• Ensure the long-term health and stability of the live service by proactively identifying and addressing technical debt, architectural gaps, and complex issues spanning client, engine, and backend systems.
• Elevate engineering quality across the team through active participation in code reviews and design discussions, and by mentoring junior engineers on best practices for C++ development and large-scale system integration.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Professional experience developing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine using C++
• Experience building or extending Unreal Editor tooling and workflows
• Experience implementing in-game UI systems based on UX or product specifications
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, concurrency)
• Experience collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams including design, UX, and production
• Experience integrating client gameplay systems with backend or platform services

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building progression, social, or player customization systems
• Experience integrating gameplay systems with Player Platform or shared service ecosystems
• Familiarity with Unreal systems such as UMG, MVVM/ViewModels, Data Assets, Online Subsystems, or other foundational engine frameworks
• Experience working on or shipping a live multiplayer or online game
• Experience supporting post-launch feature iteration and live ops updates
• Experience building data-driven systems that empower non-engineering content authors

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

As a Senior Visual Designer for an undisclosed R&D title, reporting to the Director of Marketing Creative Direction, you will help introduce a brand new game to players for the very first time. This is a rare opportunity to be an early pioneer - shaping how this game shows up in the world, how players first experience it, and how the brand and live service evolve over time. 

You will be responsible for conceptualizing and executing visual assets and deliverables that support a wide variety of brand moments across all player touch points including branding, social media, key art, game trailers, and live events. At a craft level you will lead and support the Game Publishing team, to which you are assigned, collaborating with individual contributors from other cross-disciplines to align on project goals, advocate for craft excellence and present creative solutions to briefs while ensuring brand and creative consistency via brand guidelines globally.

Responsibilities:

• Perform expert, hands-on Visual Design duties while simultaneously driving the art direction (high level artistic vision, artist management) of branding and marketing work.
• Drive and maintain the holistic visual identity for the publishing campaigns, moments, seasons and ensure that internal and external partners consistently adhere to brand guidelines and established visual identity
• Lead and manage relationships with external art vendors, design studios, and creative agencies
• Determine art resources, skills and timing needed to achieve positive campaign outcomes
• Review and deliver clear visual feedback that elevates artists and vendors in order to maintain high quality and consistency throughout multiple campaigns deliverables
• With the alignment from the Creative Director, establish the marketing art style, tone, and craft tactics for multiple features of various campaigns while responding to strategic needs
• Collaborate efficiently and effectively with a multi-disciplinary team providing creative input and feedback: Motion Graphic, illustration, Creative Direction, Gameplay Capture, and Animation

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience as a visual designer and/or art director in games, entertainment, tech, or advertising.
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Design Studies, other related field or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Miro, and presentation tools
• Proven record of outstanding craft skills in branding, typography, visual design systems, motion graphics and brand guidelines
• Expert knowledge of illustration, animation, and general creative development process for art
• Experience and curiosity around creative ideation beyond executional visual design
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, providing rationale and strategy to back creative decision making.

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of 3d art pipelines (posing, lighting compositing, etc)
• Advanced degree is a plus
• Experience owning projects end-to-end
• Video Editorial and gameplay capture for game trailers and social media
• Able to perform at several altitudes, going from high level direction to hands-on individual contributor craft work
• Experience or passion for the games industry, entertainment, or youth-culture-driven brands

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Services Producers enable teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that power the player experience across the entire game. By combining strong production fundamentals with operational discipline, they bring clarity, predictability, and accountability to complex service ecosystems. Services Producers work across engineering, live operations, Riot partners, and vendors to ensure foundational services are built, operated, and improved with intent.

As a Senior Technical Producer for Foundational Services & Operations on an unpublished R&D product, you will own production for foundational services that support the entire game. You will operate at the intersection of development and live operations, managing scope, dependencies, and delivery while also owning operational rhythms, incident processes, and service health reviews. This role reports into Foundation Operations Leadership and requires deep experience producing and operating live services at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Own production for foundational core backend services, managing backlogs, scope, schedules, and delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Drive execution through strong Agile practices, including sprint planning, prioritization, velocity tracking, and dependency management.
• Maintain clear visibility of work through JIRA, ensuring epics, stories, risks, and cross-team dependencies are accurately tracked and actively managed.
• Coordinate feature delivery across internal teams and external partners, balancing capacity, timelines, and operational risk.
• Lead operational review cadences, including preparing agendas, reviewing service health, surfacing risks, and driving follow-up actions to completion.
• Partner with release management to deliver builds across platforms globally
• Own incident management processes for services, including coordination during incidents, clear communication, and post-incident follow-through.
• Facilitate postmortems and retrospectives, translating operational learnings into concrete improvements in systems, tooling, or process.
• Partner closely with Live Operations and Product Support teams to align ownership, workflows, and expectations for service reliability.
• Dig into dashboards, metrics, and logs to understand service health, validate assumptions, and track progress against KPIs and targets.
• Provide clear reporting to Foundation Operations Leadership on delivery status, service health, risks, and operational trends.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience producing live services, backend systems, or platform technology in games or large-scale software.
• Proven experience owning production for services that operate at game-wide or platform scale.
• Strong experience running operational reviews and incident management processes in a live environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work with dashboards, KPIs, and operational metrics to guide decision-making.
• Deep familiarity with Agile production practices, including backlog management, estimation, and velocity tracking.
• Extensive experience using JIRA (or similar tools) to manage scope, dependencies, and delivery.
• Ability to coordinate work across multiple teams, disciplines, and external partners.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting large-scale live service games.
• Familiarity with service monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Experience working in blended production and live operations roles.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work across multiple domains. As engineering managers, we gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to organizational design. We also serve as mentors for engineers, guiding their performance and finding growth opportunities delivering compelling gameplay player experiences.

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering on the Developer Experience team on League of Legends, you will work with a multidisciplinary leadership team to build and evolve League’s internal developer platform, focusing on the tools, workflows, and support systems that enable developers to to build, debug, and ship efficiently. The team owns core components such as the core editor, developer-facing APIs, and platform support, while also driving reliability, reducing workflow friction, and providing responsive, SLA-backed, frontline developer support. This role is based out of Seattle.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop an engineering team of 10–15 engineers and contractors responsible for the internal developer platform for League, setting clear expectations and maintaining a high performance bar
• Mentor engineers and managers, supporting their growth and development into stronger technical and leadership roles
• Define and drive the team’s technical strategy to improve developer workflows that enable feature teams to build and ship new player experiences more efficiently
• Guide strong technical decision-making and ensure sound architectural approaches across the team’s systems and tooling
• Partner with product to ensure engineering resources are aligned to support, stability, and platform improvements that reduce developer friction and improve iteration speed
• Ensure effective developer support through SLA-backed systems and responsive incident handling
• Support the team’s on-call rotation to ensure reliable coverage and sustainable incident response practices

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating at a senior or staff engineer level
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and developing engineering leaders
• Proven ability to define and execute technical strategy across a team, aligning engineering efforts with product goals and organizational priorities
• Experience leading teams through complex technical and organizational challenges, including cross-team collaboration and dependency management
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to guide architectural decisions, evaluate system tradeoffs, and ensure high standards of software quality

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with other game engines and toolsets like Unreal or Unity
• Experience with automated testing
• Familiarity with League of Legends or a strong interest in learning

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.