Staff Build Platform Engineer — VALORANT Pipelines

Riot Games; California (MO); On-site; USD 193,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401K with company match

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Equity

Incentive compensation

Job summary

Riot Games in Los Angeles / Mercer Island seeks a Staff Software Engineer for VALORANT Build Platforms to develop and improve technologies enabling VALORANT deliveries. You’ll enhance iteration flow for hundreds of developers, acting as a pipeline-aware problem solver within Unreal development, reducing friction across local development, validation, cook, release, and CI.

You will lead multi-month engineering efforts, mentor engineers, and partner with central technology teams to apply

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience architecting and maintaining developer-facing products and platforms, supporting complex workflows and emerging requirements.
• Experience building automated build, test, and release pipelines.
• Strong empathy for improving the developer experience and reducing friction within the iteration loop.
• Expertise with C++, C#, Java, or Go.
• Ability to communicate complex technical subjects to all levels.
• Willingness to jump into unfamiliar technologies and take on new challenges.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical direction and decision-making at the team level, advising on aspects of delivery such as architecture, maintenance, cost, and scale.
• Identify and resolve cross-system bottlenecks across local workflows, Unreal build/cook systems, CI, release infrastructure, and developer-facing tools.
• Work with VALORANT developers and stakeholders to align on priorities and deliverables.
• Lead efforts to break down and execute on multi-month engineering efforts, partnering with central technology teams to leverage their expertise.
• Participate in the team's support rotation.

Skills

C++

C#

Java

Go

Platform architecture

Mentoring

Communication skills

Unreal Engine

Build pipelines

Cloud technologies

Education

BS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Perforce

Unreal Build Systems

Job description

Riot Games in Los Angeles / Mercer Island seeks a Staff Software Engineer for VALORANT Build Platforms to develop and improve technologies enabling VALORANT deliveries. You’ll enhance iteration flow for hundreds of developers, acting as a pipeline-aware problem solver within Unreal development, reducing friction across local development, validation, cook, release, and CI.

You will lead multi-month engineering efforts, mentor engineers, and partner with central technology teams to apply