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Principal Software Engineer - Riot Client

Additional Locations:

Mercer Island, USA

Job Id: REQ-0008130

Riot Client is the gateway for millions of players to play, discover, and install Riot games. Every single player goes through the Riot Client on their way to experience one of Riot’s games, and ensuring their needs, whether they be providing more ways to discover games, engage with Riot’s culture & community, or getting into their game as fast as possible, is the primary goal of the Riot Client team. Introduced in 2021, the multi-game Riot Client is becoming a destination for players to engage with Riot games, events, and communities.

As a Principal Software Engineer , you will be the Tech Lead on the Riot Client team. As a tech lead, you will be responsible for driving technical excellence and long-term technical direction for the team, ensuring high-quality deliverables, and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. You will play a crucial role in guiding and mentoring our engineering team through the software development lifecycle. You will partner with different disciplines and collaborate across teams and organizations at Riot to deliver the best player experience with sound architecture decisions. Your work will be instrumental for Riot’s out-of-game ecosystem to be successful by unlocking Riot Client’s next level of capabilities for game distribution, content, social, and internal developer efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Involve in high-level strategic planning and hands-on technical leadership with engineers to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable engineering solutions.
• Manage the wide Riot Client dependency map across Riot, understand the tech complexity, and provide strong guidance on how to evolve the application with integrity.
• Partner closely with the team engineering manager and across disciplines (product, production, QA, design, data insight) to achieve the best player experience.
• Collaborate and align across teams and organizations to drive long-term technical solutions.
• Develop a strong technical vision that incorporates different customer needs (players, game teams, internal developers) and drive the implementation.
• Mentor other engineers in technical and interpersonal skills.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or comparable experience in software development.
• 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering. 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role or comparable experience.
• Expertise in C++ and web technology (React, Node.js).
• Have been responsible for driving the design and leading the development of long-term (1 year plus) efforts across teams, including stakeholder alignment, requirements gathering, planning, testing, and release.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and organizations.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Electron.
• Experience in build pipelines.
• Experience in developer efficiency tooling.

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!

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.

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 .

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $218,300.00 - $304,300.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
• (Mercer Island only) Base salary range between $218,300.00 - $304,300.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.