Principal Engineer, Player-Facing Game Systems

Riot Games; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

Retirement match

Charitable giving

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for League of Legends' Purchase Points theme. You will set technical direction across the game client, engine, UI, content, and service integrations, leveraging expert C++ and game-development experience to solve complex cross-team problems.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate with product, design, art, UX, QA, and production to deliver performant, reliable, and cohesive player experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expert-level C++ in large codebases.
• 6+ years in game development or related tech.
• Experience designing and shipping player-facing systems.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and lead architecture for initiatives across teams.
• Design and guide player-facing systems across client, engine, UI, content, tooling, and services.
• Identify cross-team risks and make tradeoffs for quality, performance and schedule.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and live-service operations.

Skills

Expert C++

Game development

Cross-team leadership

Mentoring engineers

Performance & profiling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for League of Legends' Purchase Points theme. You will set technical direction across the game client, engine, UI, content, and service integrations, leveraging expert C++ and game-development experience to solve complex cross-team problems.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate with product, design, art, UX, QA, and production to deliver performant, reliable, and cohesive player experiences.