Staff Unreal Engine Platform Engineer

Riot Games, Inc.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness fund

Donation matching

Learning and Development opportunities

Job summary

Riot Sydney is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the Unreal Ecosystem (UnEco) and drive the team’s technical direction. You will craft an engineering vision and deliver tools, libraries, and runtime improvements that empower Riot game teams across projects.

This is a full-time, on-site role in Sydney with on-site work and remote options within Australia for candidates with work rights. You will mentor engineers, lead cross-team initiatives, and help define multi-month roadmaps and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 4+ years of professional C++ experience.
• Strong fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency.
• Experience leading multi-team technical work.
• Experience driving technical direction and designs.
• Experience building software used by other engineering teams and navigating cross-team dependencies.
• Experience mentoring and growing other engineers.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of shared libraries, plugins, and tools used by multiple game teams.
• Drive technical roadmapping for platform capabilities.
• Champion technical designs and build consensus across stakeholders.
• Lead and participate in technical planning with multi-month roadmaps.
• Uphold a high standard of engineering excellence; lead code reviews and testing strategy.
• Write clear documentation and communicate technical details across teams.
• Lead and participate in on-call rotation; resolve incidents and drive RCAs.
• Mentor engineers on technical and soft skills.

Skills

C++

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Software architecture

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Unreal Engine

Editor tooling

Build systems

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Riot Sydney is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the Unreal Ecosystem (UnEco) and drive the team’s technical direction. You will craft an engineering vision and deliver tools, libraries, and runtime improvements that empower Riot game teams across projects.

This is a full-time, on-site role in Sydney with on-site work and remote options within Australia for candidates with work rights. You will mentor engineers, lead cross-team initiatives, and help define multi-month roadmaps and