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Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering - VALORANT (Game Development)

Формат работы
onsite
Тип работы
fulltime
Грейд
senior/lead
Английский
b2
Страна
US
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TL;DR
Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering - VALORANT (Game Development): Leading the platforms, services, and operational systems that build, release, deploy, and operate VALORANT clients, dedicated servers, and live services at global scale with an accent on distributed systems, release engineering, service orchestration, and cloud infrastructure. Focus on defining technical strategy, improving reliability and release velocity, and mentoring engineering leaders across a distributed organization.

Location: Engineering organization distributed across Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sydney.

Company

Riot Games develops player-focused games and live game services, including VALORANT, in partnership with Tencent.

What you will do

  • Lead and grow a distributed organization of engineers and engineering managers.
  • Define the technical and organizational strategy for VALORANT’s core services, build, release, live operations, and developer infrastructure.
  • Improve how Unreal Engine game clients, dedicated servers, and backend services are built, validated, deployed, and operated.
  • Set technical direction across build infrastructure, release engineering, service orchestration, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Partner with Riot and Tencent engineering teams to improve reliability, release velocity, operational visibility, and developer workflows.
  • Mentor engineering leaders and senior engineers while fostering ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including large-scale customer-facing backend systems, game services, or cloud platforms.
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience leading engineers and engineering managers.
  • Experience leading live service infrastructure, release engineering, developer platforms, or operational systems at scale.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, service reliability, deployment workflows, and operational excellence.
  • Experience driving technical strategy and influencing architecture across multiple teams or organizations.
  • Professional experience with cloud infrastructure and backend technologies such as Go, Java, or C#.

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting or shipping large-scale live games.
  • Experience with Unreal Engine build, deployment, or development ecosystems.
  • Experience modernizing CI/CD, release engineering, developer infrastructure, observability, reliability, or operational tooling.
  • Experience working within globally distributed engineering organizations.

Culture & Benefits

  • Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance.
  • Parental leave for employees, spouses or domestic partners, and children.
  • 401k with company match.
  • Collaborative environment focused on player empathy, ownership, and continuous improvement.

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