Principal Release Engineer, Game Platforms

United States Digital Space LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with company match

Open PTO

Job summary

Riot Games in Los Angeles is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical direction for the centralized game release capabilities. You will partner with Release Team leadership and game teams to shape architecture and ensure scalable, reliable releases across clients, servers, and content pipelines.

This senior role requires 8+ years of professional software engineering and hands-on experience with large-scale production systems, crisis response, and strong communication with senior

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping at least one live game.
• Deep domain expertise in the end-to-end game shipping lifecycle.
• Broad release surface experience across game clients, servers, backend services, content pipelines, or release orchestration.
• Holistic technical perspective linking architectural decisions to player experience and stability.
• Strong hands-on engineering with large-scale production systems.
• Proven crisis response and problem-solving in high-pressure technical situations.

Responsibilities

• Define Technical Direction: shape strategy for Riot’s centralized release capabilities.
• Partner with Game Teams to address production needs.
• Build Cross-Team Alignment: communicate vision and tradeoffs.
• Guide End-to-End Architecture across clients, servers, services, content, and publishing workflows.
• Drive Reliable Release Decisions balancing speed, safety, and scale.
• Apply Technical & Product Judgment balancing player impact and time-to-market.
• Advise Leadership linking engineering strategy to partner adoption.
• Raise Engineering Standards across the domain.
• Resolve High-Impact Issues with quick context and collaboration.

Skills

Game shipping

Architectural design

Cross-team leadership

Production systems

Job description

Riot Games in Los Angeles is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical direction for the centralized game release capabilities. You will partner with Release Team leadership and game teams to shape architecture and ensure scalable, reliable releases across clients, servers, and content pipelines.

This senior role requires 8+ years of professional software engineering and hands-on experience with large-scale production systems, crisis response, and strong communication with senior