Engineering Manager, Core Game Loop Platform

Riot Games; Mercer Island (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and life insurance

401k with company match

Flexible work schedules

Open paid time off policy

Job summary

Riot Games on the Core Game Loop team seeks an Engineering Manager to guide a 5+ software engineers through the full software development and operations lifecycle. You’ll mentor engineers, manage performance, and ensure accountability while partnering with Product Leads and Technical Leads to align on roadmaps.

You’ll own live services, oversee technical health, participate in code reviews, and help scale systems across Riot and partners worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years as a Software Engineer, preferably on technical product teams for services and APIs.
• 2+ years leading an engineering team as EM or Tech Lead.
• Experience recruiting and growing an engineering team.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and live services.
• Experience with on-call troubleshooting and maintaining live services.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5+ software engineers; coach, review performance, and identify growth opportunities.
• Partner with Product Leads, Delivery Leads, and Technical Leads to align on the plan.
• Support technical vision and roadmap by allocating engineers to goals.
• Own interviewing and onboarding process for new team members.
• Be accountable for the technical health of owned products; oversee design and deliverables.
• Stay hands-on with codebase through reviews and non-critical tasks.
• Foster cross-team collaboration across Riot globally; build healthy relationships.
• Own and operate live services, meet reliability expectations, and manage on-call issues.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Distributed systems

On-call live services

Interviewing & hiring

Mentoring & growth

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Riot Games on the Core Game Loop team seeks an Engineering Manager to guide a 5+ software engineers through the full software development and operations lifecycle. You’ll mentor engineers, manage performance, and ensure accountability while partnering with Product Leads and Technical Leads to align on roadmaps.

You’ll own live services, oversee technical health, participate in code reviews, and help scale systems across Riot and partners worldwide.