Staff Software Engineer, Tools (Services) - Central Creative

Company

Riot Games develops games and player-focused interactive experiences.

What you will do

• Build foundational components of the studio's Digital Asset Management system for game-team creative tooling.
• Develop and maintain backend services, deployment components, monitoring, and data platform features.
• Evaluate and operate AI-assisted engineering tools that improve software quality, security, reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• Define technical vision, architecture, and execution for the tools engineering team while communicating risks and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with artists, production, design, game developers, infrastructure engineers, and QA teams to deliver scalable tools and aligned release processes.
• Create documentation and training for internal users of new tools and workflows.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipped or live products at scale.
• 3+ years of experience developing game development tools and working with large game teams and codebases.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, inference services, model-serving systems, data pipelines, or GPU-backed workloads.
• Experience with distributed systems and large-scale cloud services, including AWS RDS, S3, and EC2.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, C++, and C#.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience, plus strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder-influence skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Digital Asset Management systems.
• Experience developing desktop applications.
• Product sense, pragmatism, and player empathy in technical decision-making.

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.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Collaborative work environment focused on player-first decision-making and diverse perspectives.