Staff Tools Engineer - AI-Driven DAM & Game Tooling

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Parental leave for you and family

401k with company match

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Services) on the Central Creative Tools team in Los Angeles to lead long-term tooling vision for content creation workflows. You will be hands-on, architecting and implementing DAM-powered tooling used by artists, designers, and engineers to streamline content pipelines.

You will collaborate across disciplines, implement scalable backend components, evaluate AI-assisted tools, and drive high-quality code that elevates production efficiency and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years working on game development tools.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, inference services, model-serving systems, data pipelines, or GPU-backed workloads.
• Experience with distributed system architectures and maintaining large scale cloud services across AWS.
• Proficiency in GoLang, Java, C++ and C#.

Responsibilities

• Implement the foundational elements of the studio's Digital Asset Management (DAM) system to support each game team’s creative tools ecosystem.
• Be hands-on in development, writing excellent code that sets a high standard for other engineers.
• Evaluate, integrate, and operate AI-assisted engineering tools that improve code quality, reliability, security, performance, and developer productivity across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Implement new components and feature sets for our data platform solutions in multiple problem spaces including backend services, deployment, and monitoring.
• Help teams navigate ambiguity and complexity by breaking down problems, identifying risks, and clearly communicating trade-offs.
• Champion the technical vision, architecture, and execution for the tools engineering team with production and management.
• Collaborate effectively with production, design, art, and other engineering teams to deliver tools that are purpose-driven, robust, and scalable.
• Provide documentation and trainings on new tools and workflows to internal customers.
• Partner with game developers, infrastructure engineers, and QA teams to align release processes with development needs.

Skills

GoLang

Java

C++

C#

Education

B.S. in computer science or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

S3

EC2

RDS

Job description

Riot Games is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Services) on the Central Creative Tools team in Los Angeles to lead long-term tooling vision for content creation workflows. You will be hands-on, architecting and implementing DAM-powered tooling used by artists, designers, and engineers to streamline content pipelines.

You will collaborate across disciplines, implement scalable backend components, evaluate AI-assisted tools, and drive high-quality code that elevates production efficiency and