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Staff Software Engineer - Player Platform, Central Player Dynamics
3 years ago
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As Software Engineers, we work with both new and current technology, creating creative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Central Player Dynamics (CPD) team, you will guide and set our technical investments to encourage players to behave in a positive manner . You will help ensure that Riot can meet the scalability and reliability requirements to support all of our games worldwide.
The Central Player Dynamics team builds the platform that Riot’s games use to provide a safe and fun interactive gaming experience. We build the technology that is used to encourage our players to behave in a positive manner and the systems used to detect and act upon it when they don’t. Our technology provides reputation services, detection and penalty determination, text and voice moderation, and access & control management.
You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Central Player Dynamics initiative within Player Platform.
Responsibilities:
- Be a partner to the initiative product lead, participating in discussions around prioritization and product direction to provide context for the technical effects, and to guide the prioritization of technical needs
- Partner with all teams in the initiative to synthesize and resolve technical issues
- Create and operate microservices that enable Player Dynamics features in Riot’s games
- Work with a team of experts to design, prototype, and build these features
- Ensure the team is observing engineering excellence
- Be on rotational on-call for live product support and operational assessment
- Provide meaningful code reviews and mentor other members on the team
- Work with non-technical customers to accomplish deliverables
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or relevant professional experience
- 6+ years of deep hands-on programming experiences in Java
- Experience as a team lead, implementing software engineering best practices
- Experience developing large systems from scratch, including gathering requirements, designing, and leading the development across multiple contributors
- Experience with distributed systems and maintaining web services
Desired Qualifications:
- Prior game development experience at any level
- Understand networking - HTTP down to the network layer (TCP/IP, routing , etc )
Our Perks:
We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave , plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.
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