Principal Engineer: Player Systems & Live Services

the hive; Dublin; Remote; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Retirement match

Charitable donations program

Job summary

Riot Games in Dublin, Ireland seeks a Principal Software Engineer to set the technical direction for player-facing systems across the client, engine, UI, content, and service integrations, bringing expert C++ and game-development experience to cross-team challenges.

You will lead through influence, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with product, design, art, UX, QA, and production to deliver performant, maintainable, and cohesive experiences for players.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expert-level C++ experience in large, complex codebases.
• 6+ years of professional game-development experience.
• Experience designing and shipping player-facing systems with focus on architecture, performance, memory, concurrency, debugging, and maintainability.
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams or a broad product area without formal authority.
• Track record mentoring senior engineers and delivering multi-month/ multi-year technical efforts with broad impact.

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 across player experience, quality, performance, scope, and schedule.
• Raise the bar for system quality, reliability, observability, and live-service operations including 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 represent the Purchase Points theme in architectural discussions.

Skills

Expert C++

Game development

Architectural direction

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Riot Games in Dublin, Ireland seeks a Principal Software Engineer to set the technical direction for player-facing systems across the client, engine, UI, content, and service integrations, bringing expert C++ and game-development experience to cross-team challenges.

You will lead through influence, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with product, design, art, UX, QA, and production to deliver performant, maintainable, and cohesive experiences for players.