Staff Infrastructure Engineer - AI & Tooling

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Open PTO

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team in Los Angeles to reduce toil and automate critical workflows. You will prototype tooling, AI-enabled agents, and deployment automation to scale Riot's games globally, collaborating with multiple engineering groups across the company.

The role emphasizes leadership, design quality, and mentorship of peers, with a focus on building scalable infrastructure and efficient processes in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as a software engineer with focus on infrastructure or tooling in a fast-paced, large-scale environment.
• Expertise with full software development life cycle.
• Expertise in one or more object oriented languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java, C++).
• Strong experience working with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with large-scale development/deployment on Cloud (i.e. AWS/GCP).
• Experience with large-scale Deployment technologies (i.e. Cloudbees Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with AI tools such as Codex, Windsurf, Co-Pilot.
• Understand core infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software at a large scale.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions and features based on requirements and agreements with our stakeholders using our standard frameworks and best practices
• Drive improvements to our standards and best practices where necessary
• Continually looking for efficiency and improvement opportunities within our infrastructure, propose solutions and rally support for your proposal.
• Work with senior leadership across organizations to ensure successful implementation
• Lead by example on quality design and coding standards
• Help grow the team through mentoring and leveling up of less experienced teammates
• Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams at Riot to foster cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C++

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS

GCP

CloudBees Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Infrastructure team in Los Angeles to reduce toil and automate critical workflows. You will prototype tooling, AI-enabled agents, and deployment automation to scale Riot's games globally, collaborating with multiple engineering groups across the company.

The role emphasizes leadership, design quality, and mentorship of peers, with a focus on building scalable infrastructure and efficient processes in a fast-paced environment.