Principal Engineer: Player-Facing Systems & Live Services

Riot Games; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Paid time off

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Parental leave

Retirement match

Job summary

Riot Games in Ireland (Dublin) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the League of Legends Purchase Points theme to set technical direction across client, engine, UI, content, and services. You will bring expert C++ and game-development experience to cross-team problems, mentor senior engineers, and influence architecture by collaboration rather than authority.

This role emphasizes performance, reliability, and cohesive player experiences, with a focus on designing scalable, live-service

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expert-level C++ in large, long-lived codebases.
• 6+ years of professional game development experience.
• Experience designing and shipping player-facing systems with strong architecture and performance.
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams without formal authority.
• Ability to collaborate with non-engineering partners and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Track record mentoring senior engineers on long-term technical efforts.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C++ expert

Game development

Architecture design

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Riot Games in Ireland (Dublin) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the League of Legends Purchase Points theme to set technical direction across client, engine, UI, content, and services. You will bring expert C++ and game-development experience to cross-team problems, mentor senior engineers, and influence architecture by collaboration rather than authority.

This role emphasizes performance, reliability, and cohesive player experiences, with a focus on designing scalable, live-service