Riot Games · 6 hours ago
Manager, Software Engineering - Content Access Platform
Riot Games is a leading gaming company that values collaboration and innovation in software development. As an Engineering Manager for the Content Access Platform team, you will lead a team of engineers in building and maintaining systems that enhance the player experience, while also serving as a mentor and coach to your team members.
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Responsibilities
Manage a team of 6-10 Software and QA 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 Content Access Platform to align on the plan the team executes against
Align with service teams across Content Access Platform, and the wider Player Platform business unit, on product configuration pipelines and tooling, and best practices for using them
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
Qualification
Required
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 built 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
Preferred
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)
Experience with event driven architectures and technologies (such as Kafka)
Benefits
Open paid time off policy
Flexible work schedules
Medical, dental, and life insurance
Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
401k with company match
Company
Riot Games
Riot Games is a global company that develops online games.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$21M2018-12-31Series Unknown· $6M
2016-11-14Convertible Note
2011-02-01Acquired
Recent News
2026-01-07
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