Jobs at Riot Games

Lead multiple engineering teams for VALORANT, overseeing service development, performance management, and cross-team collaboration, while driving technical direction and operational excellence.

Lead console development for an unpublished game. Collaborate across teams, solve technical problems, optimize performance, and mentor new engineers.

Test and evaluate upcoming VALORANT gameplay through playtests, create and manage test plans and risk assessments, provide evidence-based feedback, and work with developers to define objectives and conclude playtest results.

Lead and execute cross-team initiatives to improve developer experience: build production AI integrations and developer tools, define build/release standards, eliminate CI/source-control bottlenecks, and drive technical strategy and operational excellence across Riot.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games, you'll enhance developer experience and efficiency across VALORANT by designing tools, mentoring junior engineers, and influencing best practices in a collaborative environment.

Lead development of Riot Esports web applications using web technologies; provide technical leadership, architecture, mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, on-call incident response, and own long-running features from planning through release.

Own and execute global influencer strategy for Riot's Riftbound TCG: build creator programs across launches, events, and ongoing engagement; partner cross-functionally; manage creator relationships, agencies, contracting, measurement, and regional localization; monitor trends and lead issue resolution to support product, publishing, and community goals.

Lead regional publishing strategy across the Americas, align subregional plans with global priorities, manage budgets, track performance, build partner relationships, and drive cross-functional initiatives to deliver player-focused outcomes.

Define and lead modeling architecture for personalization, matchmaking, recommendations, and social discovery. Build large-scale real-time inference systems, develop models for skill, behavior, trust & safety, and multi-objective optimization. Drive Responsible AI, experimentation, observability, and cross-functional standards while mentoring senior engineers and influencing ML strategy.

Manage and grow relationships with domestic and international art vendors, provide artistic feedback on stylized 2D weapon concepts, maintain asset pipelines and workflows, remove production roadblocks, and ensure outsourced assets meet VALORANT quality and integration standards.

Build and scale Riot Mobile platform across iOS and Android for millions of players. Own multi-month projects from discovery to delivery, collaborate with product and design, influence architecture and technical strategy, improve reliability and performance, participate in on-call and incident response, mentor engineers, and integrate cross-team features.

Manage and grow a team of Technical Game Designers for Teamfight Tactics, maintain high craft standards, collaborate across disciplines, advocate for players, scope and deliver features, recruit and onboard designers, and contribute individual technical-design work when needed.

Lead cross-functional teams to plan, coordinate, and deliver large DevCon integration programs. Define delivery standards, manage risks, drive Agile practices, report on milestones and fiscals, maintain partner relationships, and support product release and go-to-market planning.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop SDKs for multiple platforms, support Unreal plugins, enhance client performance, and work on technical solutions and release processes.

Lead development of VALORANT build and developer-facing platforms. Improve iteration workflows across local development, Unreal build/cook systems, CI, release infrastructure, and tooling. Drive architecture and long-term initiatives, resolve cross-system bottlenecks, collaborate with stakeholders, mentor engineers, and participate in support rotation.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Unreal Ecosystem team, you'll develop high-quality code, advise on technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance game development.

Lead design and build of shared backend platform services and internal tools for anti-cheat systems. Own APIs, ensure reliability, operate distributed high-availability services, improve CI/CD and observability, partner across teams for incident response, security, and platform reliability.

As a Sr. Manager in Game Design, you will lead design teams, mentor designers, and guide game projects from pre-production to launch, ensuring a player-focused experience.

Support and evolve global esports infrastructure and tooling, act as SME for core systems, automate operations, collaborate cross-functionally, and provide event support including occasional nonstandard hours and travel.

As a Principal Technical Product Manager, you'll strategize AI/ML integration in Valorant, enhancing gameplay and operational outcomes through collaboration and influence across teams.