Senior Game Release Architect

Riot Games

California (MO)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Open paid time off

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our game release ecosystem and shape technical direction at scale. You will work with game studios, R&D, and Central Tech to deliver centralized release capabilities, balancing speed, safety, and reliability for live games.

You will lead cross-team architecture discussions, diagnose complex blockers, and mentor engineers while aligning technical decisions with player experience and operational stability across Riot's global games

Qualifications

8+ years of professional software engineering experience and live-operated game shipping experience.
Deep domain expertise in end-to-end game shipping lifecycle, production workflows and live ops challenges.
Broad release surface experience across clients, servers, backends, content pipelines or release orchestration.
Holistic technical perspective connecting architecture to player experience and stability.
Strong hands-on engineering skills in large-scale production systems.
Proven crisis response and problem-solving in high-pressure technical situations.

Responsibilities

Define Technical Direction for Riot’s centralized release capabilities balancing speed, safety and scale.
Partner with game teams to address production needs.
Build cross-team alignment and communicate technical vision.