Riot Games · 18 hours ago
Software Engineering, Protect - Infrastructure
Los Angeles, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expRiot Games is a company that focuses on creating games and experiences that prioritize players. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Infrastructure Team, responsible for developing solutions to ensure the secure and scalable operations of Riot's global network backbone and UDP game traffic.
ComputerDeveloper PlatformPC GamesVideo Games
Responsibilities
Break down and independently execute on work with general direction from team tech leadership
Adhere to quality design, coding standards, and general engineering best practices
Continually look for efficiency and improvement opportunities, propose solutions, and participate in code reviews
Work with team technical leadership to ensure successful implementation
Build healthy relationships with other engineers on the team
Participate in routine, emergent, and on-call work including analysis focused on uptime, SLAs, and RCAs
Qualification
Required
2+ years experience as a software engineer with focus on infrastructure or tooling in a fast-paced, large-scale environment
Experience with full software development life cycle
Experience in one or more object oriented languages (e.g. Go, C++, Python, Java)
Experience with large-scale cloud and/or physical infrastructure ecosystems
Understanding of core infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software at a large scale
Preferred
Experience in fast-paced and matrixed organizations
Experience operating and supporting agile development, production services, and high availability
Experience developing using cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) using containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi)
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD)
Experience working with the Linux kernel
Strong understanding of networking - HTTP down to the network layer (TCP/IP, routing, DNS, etc.)
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.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$21M2018-12-31Series Unknown· $6M
2016-11-14Convertible Note
2011-02-01Acquired
Leadership Team
A. Dylan Jadeja
Chief Executive Officer
Brandon Beck
Co-chairman, Co-founder
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