The Matchmaking team is responsible for building the services that power matchmaking, skill determination, and rank across many of our games. These services play a critical role in creating high quality matches of competitive skill to ensure everyone is having a great multiplayer experience. You will have the opportunity to work on optimizing matchmaking and skill algorithms, as well as the distributed system that computes the real-time needs of millions of players and orchestrates the creation of matches between services and clients. As a
Senior Software Engineer on the Publishing Platform's Matchmaking team, you will play a critical role in building and managing the Matchmaking service which plays a critical part in the player experience of our games. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Matchmaking team.
Responsibilities: - Develop and support our Matchmaking, Skill, and Rank services
- Support our suite of mission-critical Go and C# services at a globally distributed scale
- Partner with product owners and technical leads to build and operate features end-to-end
- Provide high-quality software by writing unit, functional, and integration tests
- Invest in team's complete ownership of our products by participating in on-call rotation
- Mentor other engineers in your areas of expertise
Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role (i.e. software, systems, architecture)
- Expertise in GoLang, C#, and familiarity with Java / Kotlin / Typescript.
- Experience with the following: microservices architecture, client/service application architecture, API architecture and development
- Experience with cross-team collaboration and communication
Desired Qualifications: - Experience with "Infrastructure as Code" and tooling like Terraform, Docker and Jenkins
- Experience with Cloud Platform providers like AWS or GCP
- Experience with client / full-stack development
- Experience with data analysis, probability, statistics, and data engineering
- Expertise operating distributed services at high scale
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 $161,500.00 - $227,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
