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 Core Game Loop owns services that power the player experience while they are in game and deliver data to downstream services after a game is completed. This includes game provisioning, game data delivery, and services that power leaderboards and match history. By concentrating expertise in game platforms, we are able to offer robust, scalable features to all current and future Riot games. As a
Manager, Software Engineering on the Core Game Loop team, 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'll identify opportunities to centralize functionality and architect solutions that enable scalability and reliability worldwide. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Game Foundations org within the Publishing Platform.
Responsibilities - Manage a team of 5+ software 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 Game Foundations org to align on the plan the team executes against
- 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
- Own and operate live services, meeting reliability expectations, handling emergent issues, and supporting engineers during on-call troubleshooting
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 build 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) and key value stores (such as Redis).
- Experience with queuing or stream-processing platform (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.
- (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $192,500.00 - $269,400.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
