Principal Gameplay Engineer — Lead Systems & Tools

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) with company match

Open PTO

Job summary

Riot Games in Los Angeles seeks a Principal Software Engineer to own multiple key technical areas and drive the vision for gameplay features. You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to build systems that realize players' dreams and empower designers, artists, and producers.

You will lead with craft excellence, mentor engineers, and deliver tooling improvements that widen design space while delivering high-quality player experiences.

Qualifications

• 8–12 yrs of collective professional experience in game development.
• Experience shipping games across PC, console, and mobile.
• Expert with C++ in complex code bases.
• Experience mentoring fellow developers and leading technical designs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with external teams to shape player experiences.
• Provide feedback on technical tradeoffs for tooling improvements.
• Contribute to product direction and enable creative teams.
• Design and prototype to answer technical questions.
• Lead and deliver game content tooling for external teams.
• Mentor engineering teammates and drive core gameplay improvements.
• Develop systems that expand design space in environments, physics, audio, and navigation.
• Implement complex system changes.

Skills

C++

Gameplay systems

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Tooling pipelines

Cross-team collaboration

Multi‑platform

Tools

Game content tooling

Job description

Riot Games in Los Angeles seeks a Principal Software Engineer to own multiple key technical areas and drive the vision for gameplay features. You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to build systems that realize players' dreams and empower designers, artists, and producers.

You will lead with craft excellence, mentor engineers, and deliver tooling improvements that widen design space while delivering high-quality player experiences.