Staff Infrastructure Engineer: AI Tooling & Automation

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Open paid time off policy

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team in Los Angeles to reduce toil through tooling and automation, exploring AI-enabled opportunities. You’ll design scalable systems and mentor engineers across Riot to deliver high-impact solutions.

You’ll work with cross-functional partners, emphasize quality design and coding standards, and help Riot’s games operate globally at scale, delivering player value.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructure or tooling.
• Experience across full software development lifecycle.
• Proficiency in OO languages (Python, Go, Java, or C++).
• Strong experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience deploying at scale on AWS/GCP.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems like CloudBees Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with AI tools such as Codex, Windsurf, Copilot.
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions based on requirements with standard frameworks.
• Drive improvements to standards and best practices.
• Identify efficiency opportunities within infrastructure and propose solutions.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure successful implementations.
• Mentor teammates and grow the engineering team.
• Foster cross-team collaboration with other Riot engineering groups.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Distributed systems

Objectiented programming

Containers & Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tooling

AI tooling

Tools

Cloudbees Jenkins

GitHub Actions

MCP servers

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team in Los Angeles to reduce toil through tooling and automation, exploring AI-enabled opportunities. You’ll design scalable systems and mentor engineers across Riot to deliver high-impact solutions.

You’ll work with cross-functional partners, emphasize quality design and coding standards, and help Riot’s games operate globally at scale, delivering player value.