Senior Platform & ML Infrastructure Engineer

Socket.dev; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave (you, spouse/partner, &

401k with company match

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the core infrastructure and ML platforms that power large-scale distributed training and simulations. You will work on computing and orchestration platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and developer tooling to keep systems production-grade.

You will collaborate with engineers, data scientists, designers, and product teams to close critical gaps, improve reliability, cost efficiency,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE roles.
• Experience operating distributed systems in production and under real load.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, AWS or GCP, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, deployment automation, and production tooling.
• Experience with GPU compute infrastructure, including scheduling, multi-node orchestration, and resource optimization for long-running training workloads.
• Proficiency in Python and solid understanding of networking, microservices, core infrastructure services, and distributed systems fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Kubernetes, multi-node GPU clusters, and networking infrastructure for distributed ML bot training and large-scale policy evaluation.
• Design infrastructure for running simulation environments at scale, enabling parallel rollouts, data collection, training, and evaluation.
• Build CI/CD, deployment automation, artifact management, and infrastructure-as-code across cloud environments.
• Improve platform reliability, cost efficiency, performance, reproducibility, auditability, and operational maturity.
• Build observability, monitoring, alerting, health indicators, and SLO-aligned dashboards for infrastructure and ML workloads.
• Develop internal APIs, control planes, templates, and developer tooling for distributed training and evaluation workflows.
• Support MLOps workflows including automated training pipelines, model artifact management, experiment tracking, and reproducible ML lifecycle operations.
• Build security and governance controls, manage production incidents, drive root-cause remediation, mentor engineers, and support recruiting for platform roles.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

GPU compute infra

Python

Distributed systems

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Prometheus

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the core infrastructure and ML platforms that power large-scale distributed training and simulations. You will work on computing and orchestration platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and developer tooling to keep systems production-grade.

You will collaborate with engineers, data scientists, designers, and product teams to close critical gaps, improve reliability, cost efficiency,