Principal Engineer, Gameplay Systems & Architecture

Wwshemi; Dublin; A distancia; EUR 120.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Open paid time off

Flexible work schedules

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Retirement benefits with company match

Descripción de la vacante

Riot Games is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the League of Legends Purchase Points theme. You will set technical direction for player-facing systems across the game client, engine, UI, content, and services.

You will bring expert C++ and game-development experience to cross-team problems, clarifying tradeoffs and helping teams build performant, maintainable experiences. You will mentor engineers and lead through influence across engineering, product, design, and production.

Formación

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent on complex systems.
• Expert-level C++ experience in large, complex codebases.
• 6+ years of professional game-development experience or equivalent depth.
• Experience designing and shipping player-facing systems with strong architecture, performance, memory, concurrency, debugging, and maintainability.
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams without formal authority.
• Experience communicating complex problems and tradeoffs with non-engineering partners.
• Track record mentoring senior engineers and delivering long-term technical efforts.

Responsabilidades

• Set technical direction and lead architecture for initiatives across teams.
• Design and guide implementation of player-facing systems across client, engine, UI, content, tooling, and services.
• Identify cross-team risks and make tradeoffs affecting player experience, quality, performance, scope, and schedule.
• Raise the bar for system quality, reliability, observability, maintainability, and live-service operations; participate in incident response and root-cause analyses.
• Establish shared patterns and standards; review designs, RFCs, and implementation plans.
• Mentor senior engineers and Tech Leads; improve engineering workflows and developer experience; represent the Purchase Points theme in architectural discussions.

Conocimientos

C++ expert

Large codebases

Game development

Architectural direction

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Performance optimization

Proprietary game engines

Herramientas

Proprietary game engines

Descripción del empleo

Riot Games is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the League of Legends Purchase Points theme. You will set technical direction for player-facing systems across the game client, engine, UI, content, and services.

You will bring expert C++ and game-development experience to cross-team problems, clarifying tradeoffs and helping teams build performant, maintainable experiences. You will mentor engineers and lead through influence across engineering, product, design, and production.