Remote: Player-Facing Software Engineer Intern

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 69,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

401(k) plan

Play Fund access

Job summary

Riot Games offers a Software Engineer Intern role where you’ll gain exposure to both new and current technologies, building innovative solutions for high-volume player experiences. You’ll collaborate with developers to ship player-facing features across titles like League, TFT, and VALORANT.

Required: 2028 graduation, CS/Engineering/Tech degree, OO language skills (Java/C++/C#), DS/algorithms knowledge, min 2.5 GPA, full-time for 12 weeks.

Qualifications

• Graduating in the 2028 calendar year.
• Enrolled in a Computer Science, Engineering, or Technology related degree program.
• Coding experience with an object-oriented programming language (Java/C+/C#).
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Minimum GPA of 2.5.
• Available to work full-time hours for the 12 week internship duration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with other developers to create player-facing features for our live games.
• Build back-end services to enable shared social and platform features.
• Write code to handle processing real-time data for game teams.
• Learn to operate services on a global scale for millions of players.
• Build and maintain SDKs and APIs used by internal game customers.

Skills

OOP languages (Java, C++, C#)

Data structures & algorithms

Full-time 12-week internship

Education

Pursuing CS/Engineering/Tech degree

Graduating in 2028

Job description

Riot Games offers a Software Engineer Intern role where you’ll gain exposure to both new and current technologies, building innovative solutions for high-volume player experiences. You’ll collaborate with developers to ship player-facing features across titles like League, TFT, and VALORANT.

Required: 2028 graduation, CS/Engineering/Tech degree, OO language skills (Java/C++/C#), DS/algorithms knowledge, min 2.5 GPA, full-time for 12 weeks.