Staff Platform Engineer - Backend Services & Dev Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Open PTO

Job summary

Riot Games on Vanguard’s Platform Services is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and own backend platform services and internal tools for a large, multi-team ecosystem. You will build scalable APIs, drive reliability, and lead cross-team engineering efforts to deter cheaters while maintaining player experience.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Platform Services within Anti-Cheat. You will collaborate with engineers, stakeholders, and anti-cheat experts across the Vanguard

Qualifications

• Staff-level experience building and owning backend platforms
• Strong experience with backend service development and distributed systems
• Experience building internal tools or web apps using modern web stacks (e.g., Golang, React, Node.js, TypeScript)
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs and shared services in a large ecosystem
• Comfort operating and debugging live production systems
• Strong architectural judgment and influencing technical decisions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve shared backend platform services powering Vanguard systems
• Own APIs and service contracts used by multiple teams
• Lead development of internal tools and web applications for operations, investigations, configuration, visibility
• Identify and reduce systemic risks across the platform (scalability, operability, security)
• Design and operate distributed backend systems with high availability and security guarantees
• Partner in incident response and reliability improvements
• Improve CI/CD, observability, and operational workflows for platform services
• Collaborate with Anti-Cheat, Security, and Game teams as a technical partner

Skills

Backend platforms

Distributed systems

Internal tooling

APIs & services

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Riot Games on Vanguard’s Platform Services is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and own backend platform services and internal tools for a large, multi-team ecosystem. You will build scalable APIs, drive reliability, and lead cross-team engineering efforts to deter cheaters while maintaining player experience.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Platform Services within Anti-Cheat. You will collaborate with engineers, stakeholders, and anti-cheat experts across the Vanguard