High Salary: Staff Software Engineer

Overview

Sydney, Australia

Staff Software Engineer – Legends of Runeterra, Services. This role contributes to a broad range of technology challenges as part of a live, game-as-a-service CCG on PC and Mobile. You will own, improve, and develop new features for our core back-end microservice stack that serves players globally, help decide on refactoring and tuning, and act as front-line defense against emergent bugs impacting large numbers of players.

Internal Job title: Software Engineer III. This is a full-time role, based in Sydney, Australia.

Responsibilities

- Collaborating with team-leads delivering value to players on a monthly release cadence.
- Creating technical designs for new features, breaking down multi-month projects into smaller projects and tasks.
- Design, build, and maintain C# microservices to support a live Unity game.
- Build scalable APIs to support gameplay, content, and meta-game systems.
- Collaborate with client engineers to ensure seamless feature delivery.
- Maintaining, scaling, and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure.
- Monitor and improve service performance, reliability, and observability.
- Support and improve CI/CD and developer workflows in support of feature teams.
- Implementing and championing engineering standards to ensure high quality code.
- Coaching more junior engineers through code reviews and 1-on-1 feedback.
- Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of collective experience in professional software development.
- 3+ years experience with compiled object oriented languages (C++, Java, C#, etc.).
- Experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments.
- Experience with containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.).
- Strong grasp of service observability (logs, metrics, tracing).
- Experience breaking down and leading execution of multi-month work efforts in scope collaborating with team leadership. This regularly includes collaboration across disciplines and other teams of engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Desired Qualifications

- Experience developing high-performance services at global scale.
- Experience with scripting languages (python, bash, ruby, Node.js, etc.).
- Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, caching systems (e.g. Redis), and pub/sub systems (e.g. Kafka, HornetQ, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
- Experience working with non-engineering disciplines (Art, Design, Audio, UI/UX, etc.).
- Proficiency with Agile/Scrum and understanding of its value to work processes.
- Experience mentoring team members to level up their technical capabilities.

For this role, success comes from craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. Your past studies, experience, and relationship with games will be considered. If you embody player empathy and care about players/' experiences, this could be your role.

Benefits and Culture

Riot values work-life balance with an open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for primary and secondary carers), and flexible work schedules. The company fosters a fun environment with co-op gaming areas, a play fund to deepen knowledge of players and community, and snacks. Additional benefits include:

- Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness fund
- Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
- Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player- and workplace-centric culture guided by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Riot is committed to diversity and inclusion (D&I) and promoting a fair, collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage reading about our value of thriving together and our work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

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