At Riot, engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Unreal Ecosystem team, you will work with a passionate team of engineers in the support of plugins, tools and systems that empower all developers and collaborators to make the best game experiences for our players. 

The Unreal Ecosystem (UnEco) team collaborates with partners across Riot, all contributing to a stronger, more efficient Unreal development environment. You’ll navigate diverse technical challenges, ramping up quickly on new topics and solving complex problems in ways that empower both developers and, ultimately, our players.

This role is can be based in either Australia or New Zealand, and will be a 12-month contract.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the on-call rotation within core working hours; resolve game developer workflows & identify points of improvements from hands on support.
• Build and maintain software systems with a focus on quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Write clear documentation and communicate technical details across teams and disciplines.
• Uphold a high standard of engineering excellence. Participate in code reviews, write unit/integration tests, and contribute to continuous improvement of team practices.

Required Qualifications: 

• 4+ years experience in professional software development
• 3+ years of professional experience and proficiency with C++
• Experience working with game development teams or adjacent industries
• Experience with Unreal engine
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, etc.)
• Strong communication within and across teams
• Fluency in English
• Core Hours align with AEDT 10AM-6PM

Desired Qualifications:

• Fluency in Mandarin

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!

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

The Hextech Gameplay team develops custom engine technologies and tools that power the creation of gameplay experiences within League of Legends. Join us and shape the future of League of Legends gaming! 

As a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on tooling and engine systems for League of Legends, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality workflows for league engineers and designers. You’ll advance tooling workflows that enable creators to bring their visions to life at scale and provide expert level support for these technologies. This role will report to the Engineering Manager on the Hextech Gameplay team in Sydney.

This is a full-time role, based in Sydney, Australia. Internal Job Title: Software Engineer II. 

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain software systems with a focus on quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Uphold a high standard of engineering excellence. Participate in code reviews, write unit/integration tests, and contribute to continuous improvement of team practices.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, producers, and other engineers to understand their workflows, scope, implement, and test features.
• Debug and resolve issues in live environments and development pipelines.
• Write clear documentation and communicate technical details across disciplines.
• Participates in the on-call rotation; resolves live incidents & proposes solutions in RCAs
• Provide mentorship to more junior members of the team

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a comparable field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in professional software development
• 3+ years of professional experience and proficiency with C++
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, etc.)
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating across disciplines

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of multiplayer systems, content pipelines, telemetry, or build systems
• Experience developing within any game engines
• Experience with perforce and/or github version control systems
• Experience in Agile processes and continuous delivery
• Experience in translating user feedback into technical solutions

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, identifying and collaborating with key stakeholders, 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!

Working closely with Riot teams globally, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our teams work on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.

If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. Our players are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment.

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

At Riot, we believe in delivering player-focused experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be. The Sydney-based team contributes to a new Unpublished R&D Product in collaboration with partners in North America, with a focus on building the technical foundations that enable great player and developer experiences. By encouraging collaboration, you’ll drive development, smashing through obstacles and driving products into players’ hands.

Producers at Riot lead complex initiatives from conception through delivery, aligning teams around clear goals and enabling predictable, high-quality outcomes.

As a Technical Producer II on an Unpublished R&D Product you will support a technology team, you'll lead the coordination and delivery of engineering-focused initiatives that improve performance, support build processes, and enable game features at scale. You'll work across time zones to align stakeholders, manage development pipelines, and ensure that the team is set up for success at every stage of project development. You’ll report to a Senior Manager, Game Production.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day production efforts for a cross-functional engineering and technical art team
• Drive sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and milestone execution
• Ensure strong team health, culture, and efficiency
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and align on goals
• Track progress, manage risks, and ensure delivery of high-quality tools and features
• Promote best practices in planning, estimation, and documentation
• Coordinate across teams to unblock dependencies and align technical solutions
• Communicate clearly and consistently with partners in multiple time zones
• Identify opportunities to improve developer workflows and system scalability

Required Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Producer, Project Manager or similar role in software or game development
• Ample experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience leading teams through all feature development phases (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
• Experience applying Agile and Lean development processes such as Scrum or Kanban

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with the video game industry. A background in digital project management/Agile project management/Scrum Master in a technology setting will also be considered 
• Experience working with teams building engine capabilities, internal tooling or gameplay features
• Mastery of production tools like Jira to track development and create accurate reporting

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:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

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.

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team collaborates globally to build next-generation game features and technology on an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. Whether it’s backend systems, client features, performance tooling, or player-facing experiences, we create the infrastructure and features that shape player and developer satisfaction.

As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the development of metagame systems and features that power a new R&D gameplay experience. You'll work in a cross-functional team alongside producers, designers, and other engineers, helping define and deliver solutions that are scalable, performant, and tailored to enhance player experiences outside of gameplay.

Responsibilities:

• Uphold a high standard of engineering excellence
• Design, build, and maintain software systems with a focus on quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with designers, producers, and other engineers to scope, implement, and test features.
• Participate in code reviews, write unit/integration tests, and contribute to continuous improvement of team practices.
• Debug and resolve issues in live environments and development pipelines.
• Write clear documentation and communicate technical details across disciplines.
• Learn and contribute to shared libraries, tools, and platforms used across the project.

Required Qualifications: 

• 3+ years experience in professional software development
• Professional experience and proficiency with C++
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, etc.)
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating across disciplines
• Experience building games and/or working in game engines

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of social systems, Unreal view models or Unreal Online Subsystems
• Experience developing UI or metagame systems for Unreal Engine games
• Professional experience building large scale backend systems or game services
• Experience with perforce and/or github version control systems

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!

Working closely with Riot teams globally, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our team works on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.

If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. Our players are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

Riot Games Sydney is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Sydney-based VALORANT, Player Dynamics Team. Internal Job Title: Software Engineer II.

As Software Engineers at Riot, we bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas and also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. We have a deep passion for helping to bring joy to players via technical solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the VALORANT Social and Player Dynamics Team, you will be responsible for the systems that keep the game safe for all players by enforcing fair play and communication. You will be working closely with the team to react to analytics and community feedback to make VALORANT a positive, fun gaming experience for everyone.

You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Social and Player Dynamics area.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and deliver gameplay features and back end services for our players
• Lead projects with your teammates and in collaboration with other teams and disciplines
• Seek out and champion development process improvements
• Uphold a high standard of engineering excellence
• Provide mentorship to more junior members of the team
• Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation

Required Qualifications: 

• 4+ years experience in professional software development
• 3+ years professional experience with C++
• Experience collaborating on cross-team development efforts on software projects, including requirements gathering, planning and release - coordinating with relevant stakeholders across different disciplines

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience
• Experience developing and shipping code in a real-time 3D environments (e.g. Unity, Unreal, Godot)
• Experience developing within gameplay systems for Unreal Engine games
• Experience with perforce and/or github version control systems
• Experience developing and shipping code for high load real time services

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!

Working closely with the LA Headquarters, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our team works on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.

If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. The people who play our games are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment.

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle.

We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!).

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

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.

As Software Engineers at Riot, we bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas and also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. We have a deep passion for helping to bring joy to players via technical solutions.

In VALORANT Foundations, we focus on the game engine, content pipelines, developer workflows, and other critical core capabilities. As a Senior Software Engineer on the VALORANT Foundations Release Engineering team, you will work with our core build and delivery systems ensuring that our players receive the amazing content VALORANT has to offer regularly. This role will report to the Engineering Manager on VALORANT Foundations, Release Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to effectively maintaining, upgrading and solidifying the release pipeline to deliver VALORANT to all players across the globe.
• Drive technical processes to improve the automation and longevity of the release pipeline.
• Collaborate with teammates through leading development efforts around solidifying and automating domain areas.
• Implement testable, robust engineering solutions to complex problem spaces and release these with a defensive mindset.
• Contribute to development efforts through effective breakdown and execution on multi-month development efforts.
• Provide mentorship to junior members of the team.
• Participate in the team’s support rotations.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience in professional software development.
• Experience developing and maintaining live service products with a proven track record of focusing on developer experience.
• Ability to write clear, maintainable code and communicate technical concepts effectively across disciplines.
• Expertise in maintaining and improving orchestration pipelines (Jenkins, Horde or similar).
• Professional or hobby experience working with Unreal Engine

Desired Qualifications:

• 3+ years professional experience utilising either C# and/or Groovy.
• Expert proficiency with Jenkins and a deep knowledge of orchestrating and optimizing a global release flow.
• Professional experience with Lean or Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban, etc).
• Strong proficiency in automating workflows to ensure maintainability and scalability. 
• Expertise in building automated build, test and release pipelines.
• Proficient with C++ and deep knowledge of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency).
• Technical expertise in utilising Github actions for service delivery and automation.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating across disciplines.

For this role, you'll succeed through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritises the delight of players. While we will analyse your past studies and experience, we will also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Working closely with Riot teams globally, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our team works on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.

If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. Our players are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

At Riot, we put players first. Our Sydney-based team is partnering globally to build next-generation game features and technology on an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. Whether it's social systems, personalization, store integrations, or core engine features, our teams are focused on delivering seamless, performant, and player-delighting experiences.

At Riot, we believe “Quality” is more than the defect discovery process. For us, it’s a set of values, practices, and behaviors that inform every part of the development process. By honing our quality craft and developing strong cross-discipline partnerships we are improving our capacity to rapidly bring outstanding experiences to our players while reaching ever higher degrees of product integrity.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you’ll help shape the quality strategy and execution for a feature team on a new and Unpublished R&D title. You will embed with developers, designers, and producers to champion quality throughout the development lifecycle—from early planning to hands-on testing to metrics-driven validation. Your work will ensure our tools, systems, and player experiences are both reliable and delightful.

This role is based in Sydney, Australia. You’ll report to an Manager, Software Engineering supporting the R&D Game Team. Internal Job Title: QA Engineer II. 

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a quality-first mindset across the development team, advocating for scalable testing and clear quality goals.
• Design, implement, and execute test plans, charters, and test cases across game features, tools, and backend systems.
• Help define quality metrics and use data to inform risk management, release readiness, and product confidence.
• Identify opportunities to improve pipelines, workflows, and test coverage.
• Partner with engineers to investigate issues and triage defects.
• Coordinate testing with offsite or vendor QA teams and provide structured feedback.
• Serve as the voice of the player by representing end-user expectations and ensuring experiential integrity.

Required Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience in software or game QA roles.
• Demonstrated experience in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, design, and production functions.
• Ability to discuss and review technical implementation details with engineers.
• Experience coordinating with distributed testing resources and evaluating test effectiveness.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with QA tooling such as Jira, TestRail, or custom reporting dashboards.
• Experience testing complex services or engine systems, ideally in games or interactive applications.
• Understanding of version control workflows (e.g., Git, Perforce).
• Certifications in software testing (e.g., ISTQB Foundation, BBST, Agile Testing).
• Prior experience working in Unreal Engine or with telemetry/performance test tools.
• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent

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!

Working closely with Riot teams globally, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our team works on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.

If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. Our players are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team works closely with teams across the globe to build next-generation features and technology for an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. Whether contributing to backend architecture, developer-facing tools, or player-focused features, we craft the systems that drive performance, scalability, and engagement.

As a Staff Software Engineer (Internal Job Title: Software Engineer III), you’ll take technical ownership of key areas within our workstreams. You’ll contribute across the development lifecycle — designing scalable solutions, mentoring teammates, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure that player and developer experiences meet a high quality bar. 

As Software Engineers at Riot, we bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas and also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. We work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value. You will report to an Engineering Manager supporting the R&D Game Team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, performant systems.
• Drive technical discussions and decision-making across gameplay, engine, or tooling components.
• Collaborate with producers, designers, QA, and fellow engineers to scope, implement, and test game features.
• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and maintainable architecture.
• Debug complex issues in development and live environments, with a player-first mindset.
• Contribute to team health through mentorship, documentation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Proactively identify technical risks and bottlenecks, proposing pragmatic and innovative solutions.
• Give feedback to product leaders about product direction and player affinity.
• Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience delivering live or shipped products.
• Expert proficiency with C++ and deep knowledge of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency).
• Experience building systems in a cross-functional team and contributing to cross-team architecture discussions.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in both development and live environments.
• Ability to write clear, maintainable code and communicate technical concepts effectively across disciplines.
• Experience building games.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with Unreal Engine.
• Familiarity with systems such as multiplayer frameworks, performance tooling, build pipelines, or telemetry.
• Experience with version control systems like Perforce or Git.
• Prior experience working on global-scale game development or online services.

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:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

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.

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based studio partners globally to develop a across our suite of live games, core technology and new and evolving experiences across multiple Unpublished R&D titles. Whether building foundational systems, driving production strategy, or fostering collaboration across time zones, our teams help deliver genre-defining player experiences.

As a Manager, Game Production on League of Legends, you will work closely with producers, product managers, and cross-discipline leaders to guide teams from conception through launch and live operations. You will be the custodian of strong delivery processes and ensure that collaboration with other teams runs smoothly. You will oversee a team of teams work, build work systems, ensure execution, and provide stakeholders and customers with visibility on complex deliverables. You will also ensure teams work at a sustainable pace and continuously improve. You will work with an offsite team to oversee their development of features and services and ensure they are incorporated into the team’s work system. Your role will report to the Sydney Studio Senior Manager in Game Production on League of Legends.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage and grow production and product management craft across multiple teams and projects.
• Drive strategic alignment across initiatives to ensure work supports both local and global objectives.
• Maintain and report on project status regularly to stakeholders, customers, and dependent teams.
• Facilitate conversations, identify misalignment areas in development, and develop risk mitigation plans.
• Provide leadership guidance, mentorship, and feedback to producers and product leads.
• Foster healthy and efficient co-development practices between Sydney and partner studios.
• Champion team health, culture, and long-term sustainability.
• Identify and communicate production risks and opportunities across teams and product verticals.

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience shipping games, applications, or software in a production/product/program management role.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in a people management role or team leadership, coaching and mentoring.
• Proven experience leading teams through major development phases (planning, execution, release, and post-launch).
• Demonstrated experience with Agile development methodologies and frameworks.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders across disciplines and time zones.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience establishing metrics and data-driven improvement processes.
• Strong analytical and strategic planning skills.
• Experience fostering collaboration across distributed global teams.
• Previous experience in game development, live service operations, or related entertainment fields.

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:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

Riot's Data Engineers build products that improve the experience of our players worldwide using petabytes of data and state-of-the-art processing technology. Maximizing the potential of this data is a complex task. 

As a Senior Data Engineer (Contract) joining the Sydney-based team, you will lead the modernization and uplift of our data platform to improve reliability, governance, and scalability. You will drive architectural refactoring across our lakehouse environment, consolidate and standardize data models, and enforce a clear Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion hierarchy. You will implement robust data quality and observability frameworks for business-critical datasets, operationalize data ownership and tiering standards, and elevate metadata completeness and lineage transparency across our data catalog and warehouse ecosystem. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you will help transform the data environment into a trusted, production-grade platform that supports operational decision-making, executive reporting, and advanced analytics. 

This role is based in Sydney and a 12-month contract.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with senior engineers to execute architectural improvements across the lakehouse platform.
• Implement dimensional data models and standardize semantic/gold reporting layers.
• Enforce medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture standards.
• Build and integrate automated data quality monitoring.
• Improve metadata completeness and lineage transparency through catalog updates and automation.
• Contribute to CI/CD standards and pipeline reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver production-grade, trusted datasets.

Required Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of relevant experience building scalable data platforms in production environments.
• Strong experience in data modeling and data warehousing, e.g. medallion lakehouse architecture.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Databricks, Spark (PySpark/SparkSQL), Delta Lake, Airflow, and Python.
• Experience implementing automated data quality checks and validation frameworks.
• Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Experience delivering on AWS-based data platforms.
• Familiarity with metadata/catalog tools (Atlan, Alation, DataHub, Unity Catalog, etc.).

Desired Qualifications:

• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese is highly desirable.
• Experience contributing to data platform modernization or data maturity uplift initiatives.
• Experience working across cross-regional engineering teams.
• Experience improving metadata automation or lineage tooling.

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!

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team contributes to the unpublished R&D Product, collaborating globally to build next-generation features and technology. Whether focused on automation, performance, tools, or build systems, we create the foundations for great developer and player experiences.

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll predominantly offer creative solutions to organizational design. You’ll also serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability. 

As an Engineering Manager and tech lead of Automation & Build Systems on our unpublished MMO, you will drive initiatives and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering, while also overseeing their performance and trying to find stretch opportunities for their growth.

You will work with all team disciplines to design, implement, and iterate on modern game development workflows, pipelines, and automation. You will work in a small team alongside a product lead, technical artists, and other engineers to ensure we can efficiently deliver on our player’s dreams. We’re looking for an engineer experienced in automation and build systems whose work will ensure our MMO consistently delivers a high-quality, dependable experience that players can trust over the long term. The ideal candidate is passionate, driven, and wants to guide the technical vision of how we extend engines and optimize workflows. You will report to an Engineering Manager within R&D.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of 2–6 engineers through all phases of product development.
• Work across time zones to set the technical direction, in partnership with product and discipline leads, driving clarity and alignment on priorities.
• Design and implement solutions for large scale automation and build tooling across a distributed network of servers.
• Lead architecture requirements, technical design, and hands-on implementation across relevant systems, shaping the team’s technical direction and standards.
• Grow the capabilities of the team through coaching, career development, and hiring.
• Foster an engineering culture grounded in player-first, collaboration, inclusion, autonomy and best practices.
• Identify, interview, and hire software engineers to scale the team and ensure consistency in excellence between global teams.
• Work with the Core Tech Engineering Manager in Los Angeles to plan, roadmap and deliver on the needs for content creation, stability, and testing.
• Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of development experience as a software engineer, including shipping one or more games or products on large code bases that span a range of platforms and tools.
• 2+ years experience directly leading engineering teams as a people manager.
• Proficient in C and C++, with strong debugging skills and a solid foundation in common game and software design patterns.
• Experience developing real-time online multiplayer games using Unreal Engine (or similar engine), with expertise in automation tooling, performance tooling, build pipelines, and/or telemetry.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple disciplines across time-zones, coupled with strong product sense, pragmatic decision-making, and player empathy in technical choices.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience developing MMO and/or large scale online games with a focus on game server architecture and automation.
• Experience working with global teams, and working with leadership across time zones.
• Skilled in managing requirements and refining game development pipelines for efficiency and scalability.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine, including Blueprint visual scripting, and working knowledge of Iris.
• Experience working with mid-sized engineering teams and other disciplines (e.g. Tech Design, UX Design, Production) in an agile environment
• Prior experience working on global-scale game development or online services.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

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.

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager at Riot, you’ll gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to organizational design. You will also serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing their performance and supporting their growth.

VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!).

As a Manager, Software Engineering on the VALORANT team, in addition to working in the code, you’ll guide engineers on the team to grow in their careers and help the overall team meet its product and technical goals. As a leader on our Core Services team, you will lead a team of engineers in improving how VALORANT builds, delivers and operates its global services platform. You will lead the development of new services, drive evergreen improvements to existing services, create standards and frameworks to improve services development across VALORANT, and improve the tools and pipelines used to ship and operate those services. You will work closely with technical teams in Tencent to improve services delivery and operations in China, closing divergences in developer experience and platform behavior between Tencent and Riot regions. You will report to the Senior Manager of Engineering for VALORANT in Sydney.

This is a full-time role, based in Sydney, Australia.

Responsibilities:

• Manage an engineering team, ensuring good practices are maintained, and collaboration is fostered between disciplines and other teams to deliver a consistently high quality experience to players.
• Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, actively contributing across all phases of the product lifecycle, including implementation.
• Participate in discussions about our product vision and ensure that vision is clear to your engineers and their respective teams.
• Guide the technical design, development and operation of services, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Break down multi-month projects into smaller projects and tasks.
• Implement and champion engineering standards to ensure high quality code.
• Coach more junior engineers through code reviews and 1-on-1 feedback.
• Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation.
• Mentor engineers identifying stretch opportunities for them to grow. 
• Manage the health and performance of the engineering team with empathy and authenticity, building trust, and inspiring them to overcome challenges. 
• Seek different perspectives to solve problems, encouraging engineers and others to contribute ideas. Base your decisions on sound analysis and avoid biases.

Required Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of experience directly leading a software delivery team either as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead & mentor.
• 5+ years of experience as a hands-on software engineer working in service development.
• Fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese and English; comfortable communicating technically in both languages.
• Expertise with C#, Java, Golang, or similar language(s).
• Experience collaborating across departments and disciplines to create solutions.
• Experience working in an agile environment.

Desired Qualifications:

Ideal candidates will have broad experience which covers 1 or more of the following:

• Professional experience building large-scale, high-performance backend systems or game services.
• Experience working with C++.
• Professional or hobby experience working with Unreal Engine.
• Professional experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies.
• Experience delivering complex features in a live game or product.
• Experience working in a distributed environment across time zones and cultures.

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:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team is partnering globally to build next-generation features and technology on an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. The team focuses on supporting the game's visual targets and content production needs - helping our artists to realize a vibrant and rich world for players to be immersed and express themselves in.

As a Manager, Technical Artist, Rendering, you’ll help define and deliver the visual bar for our next generation of worlds. You’ll lead and grow a team of talented technical artists, providing hands-on coaching, clear direction, and thoughtful feedback that elevates both craft and collaboration. By partnering closely with Art Leadership, Environment Art, and Lighting, you’ll help shape content creation efforts and translate creative ambition into clear rendering and lighting requirements that achieve our visual targets.

As a Manager, Technical Artist, you’ll own the artist-facing interfaces to the rendering pipeline, ensuring tools and systems are intuitive, well-documented, and built to scale. You’ll work side-by-side with Engineering to evaluate performance implications, balancing stunning visual fidelity with scalability across hardware constraints. From asset pipeline optimization to evolving visual systems as the project matures, you’ll ensure lighting and rendering workflows integrate seamlessly into content creation. As a strategic cross-disciplinary partner, you’ll communicate constraints, risks, and opportunities with clarity — empowering artists with best practices while guiding leadership toward smart, sustainable technical decisions. 

You will report into the Senior Manager, Technical Art and work closely with the Tech Art Director and other members of the team abroad.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage a team of technical artists, providing support, coaching, and guidance in how they conduct their work.
• Partner with Art Leadership, Environment Art, and Lighting to define rendering and lighting requirements needed to achieve the desired visual target.
• Own and support the artist-facing interfaces to the rendering pipeline, ensuring systems are intuitive, documented, and scalable.
• Work with Engineering to evaluate performance implications of lighting and rendering features, balancing visual quality with scalability and hardware constraints.
• Partner on asset pipeline development and optimization, ensuring lighting and rendering workflows integrate cleanly with content creation.
• Support the evolution of existing visual systems, adapting tools, workflows, and systems as needed.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to artists around lighting and rendering best practices.
• Build strong cross-disciplinary relationships to understand artist needs and communicate constraints, risks, and opportunities to leadership.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist in games or a related industry.
• Experience with Unreal Engine lighting, rendering, and scripting systems.
• Proficiency with one or more industry standard content creation tools such as Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, Adobe Suite, ZBrush, Houdini, Substance Suite, or Blender.
• In-depth understanding of real-time rendering principles, lighting models, and optimization strategies for real-time environments.
• Proven experience partnering closely with engineers to support or drive engine-level changes that meet artistic goals.
• Strong understanding of art production pipelines and the ability to translate artistic requirements into usable, production-ready tools or processes.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to act as a bridge between art and engineering.
• Proactive, responsible, and comfortable owning ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on a large-scale, AAA game with a sizable, cross-disciplinary team.
• Familiarity with modern Unreal Engine rendering features such as Lumen, Nanite, PCG, dynamic lighting systems, and weather-driven lighting.
• Experience contributing to or supporting content creation efforts during early or transitional production phases.
• Experience with scalable systems, tools, or pipeline development for large teams.
• Experience working with performance profiling and optimization in collaboration with engineering.

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:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

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.

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in many broader domains. As a Staff Software Engineer at Riot, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team goals. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.VALORANT is Riot’s take on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT click here!).

As a Staff Software Engineer on the VALORANT team, you’ll drive the direction of how VALORANT builds, delivers and operates its global services platform. You will lead the development of new services, drive evergreen improvements to existing services, create standards and frameworks to improve services development across VALORANT, and improve the tools and pipelines used to ship and operate those services. You will work closely with technical teams in Tencent to improve services delivery and operations in China, closing divergences in developer experience and platform behavior between Tencent and Riot regions.

This is a full-time role, based in Sydney, Australia.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development of VALORANT’s services platform as part of a distributed team across Sydney and the US.
• Guide the technical design, development and operation of services, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Champion the technical vision for your team with production and other engineering teams.
• Advocate for players, your team, and internal development customers when deciding what to build and why. Coordinate with other teams across Riot and in Tencent working on, delivering and operating services.
• Serve as technical lead on projects, designing technical solutions and reviewing others’ to anticipate disruptions or complexities. Write critical portions of code and shepherd solutions to successful deployment and operation.
• Plan and sequence the parallel rollout of major system changes using technical designs and instruction.
• Be a standard-bearer and role model of Riot values for your team and others.
• Be a force multiplier for your team. Mentor and direct engineers on your team by breaking down complex tasks and reviewing their delivery.
• Implement and champion engineering standards to ensure high quality code.
• Coach more junior engineers through code reviews and 1-on-1 feedback.
• Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation.
• Seek different perspectives to solve problems, encouraging engineers and others to contribute ideas. Base your decisions on sound analysis and avoid biases.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience as a hands-on software engineer working in service development.
• Fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese and English; comfortable communicating technically in both languages.
• Expertise with C#, Java, Golang, or similar language(s).
• Professional experience building large-scale, high-performance backend systems or game services.

Desired Qualifications:

Ideal candidates will have broad experience which covers 1 or more of the following:

• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience working with C++.
• Professional or hobby experience working with Unreal Engine.
• Professional experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies.
• Experience delivering complex features in a live game or product.
• Experience working in a distributed environment across time zones and cultures.

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

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

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.