Manager, Software Engineering - Publishing Platform, Core Game Loop

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, mento...

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...

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

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
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!