Manager, Software Engineering (Meta Game Services)

TL;DR

Software Engineering Manager (Meta Game Services): Managing a team of software engineers to build services that power the player experience, delivering game data and supporting leaderboards and match history. Focus on centralizing functionality, architecting solutions for scalability and reliability, and fostering cross-team collaboration within Riot and with Tencent.

Company

Riot Games is dedicated to creating games and experiences that make it better to be a player.

What you will do

• Manage and coach a team of 5+ Software Engineers, providing performance management and growth opportunities.
• Partner with Product Leads, Delivery Leads, and Technical Leads to align on team plans.
• Support the technical vision and roadmap by allocating engineers and skill sets.
• Own the interviewing and onboarding process for new engineering team members.
• Oversee technical design and deliverables, engaging with the codebase through code reviews.
• Build relationships with engineering teams across Riot globally to foster cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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) and key value stores (such as Redis).
• Experience with queuing or stream-processing platform(such as Kafka).

Culture & Benefits

• Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
• 401k with company match.