Global Live Ops Platform Leader (Unreal)

The Briefed; Los Angeles (CA); Híbrido; USD 260.000 - 380.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible Work Culture

Healthcare & Family Benefits

Retirement Planning

Player-Centric Culture

Descripción de la vacante

VALORANT Foundations is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a distributed team across Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sydney. You will own strategy, release orchestration, and operational execution powering Unreal Engine build pipelines, game server deployments, and live ops across Riot and Tencent ecosystems.

You will mentor engineering managers, shape cross-team architecture, drive platform reliability, and expand developer infrastructure.

Formación

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building large-scale backend systems.
• 4+ years of formal engineering management experience (managing managers).
• Experience with live service infrastructure, release engineering, or developer platforms.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and modern cloud/backend stacks (Go, Java, C#).
• Experience shaping cross-team architecture and driving organizational technical strategy across multiple engineering groups.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a multi-site engineering organization across Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sydney.
• Define and execute long-term technical and organizational strategy for build pipelines, release engineering, microservices deployment, live ops tooling, and developer infrastructure.
• Drive continuous improvements to Unreal Engine build, packaging, and deployment of game clients, dedicated server fleets, and backend microservices globally.
• Partner with Riot and Tencent engineering teams to elevate release velocity, service reliability, and developer workflows across regions.
• Establish technical standards across build infrastructure, service orchestration, telemetry/observability stacks, and operational readiness practices.
• Mentor engineering managers and senior staff engineers while fostering ownership, accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Go

Java

C#

Leadership

Engineering management

Descripción del empleo

VALORANT Foundations is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide a distributed team across Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sydney. You will own strategy, release orchestration, and operational execution powering Unreal Engine build pipelines, game server deployments, and live ops across Riot and Tencent ecosystems.

You will mentor engineering managers, shape cross-team architecture, drive platform reliability, and expand developer infrastructure.