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Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Infrastructure Platform, RDX:Edge

As a part of the Riot Developer Experience (RDX) team, you'll collaborate to build the distributed platform that enables our games to operate globally at scale. You will work with all game teams, including R&D, to engineer the microservice foundation that enables us to bring projects from creation to production. If you are looking to have an impact across all of Riot, join us and pioneer solutions to new challenges at an incredible scale.

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the RDX Edge team, your team will build products that enable Riot developers to securely publish their APIs for use at scale. You'll leverage your expertise in building large-scale, highly-available systems to build a managed API gateway service that brings value to millions of players across the world, by handling everything necessary to securely accept and process hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls for the Riot Games API and critical game loop services used across products like League of Legends, VALORANT, Wild Rift, and more. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Riot Developer Experience (RDX) group.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of software engineers, coaching them, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability
• Manage the health and performance of the engineering team with empathy and authenticity, building trust, and inspiring them to overcome challenges
• Grow the team through hiring and constructing an efficient onboarding process for new team members
• Provide technical expertise throughout the product life cycle including design, implementation, test, and release while continuously improving the software engineering quality and efficiency
• Demonstrate a high bar of craft excellence for your team
• Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams at Riot to foster cross-team collaboration

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years experience of people management experience
• 10+ years of software industry experience
• Ability to scale yourself through other leaders and hold teams accountable for shipping high-quality software
• Expertise in project management, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems
• Working experience in distributed systems at scale
• Experience collaborating across departments to create solutions

Desired Qualifications

• Experience operating and supporting production services, understanding of on-call processes
• Experience developing using cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) using containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• 6+ years of experience working with one or more programming languages such as Java, Go and their respective ecosystems
• Understand networking - HTTP down to the network layer (TCP/IP, routing, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
  

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in gaming

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).