Riot Games is looking for a Software Engineer III to join our MMO team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design, build, and enhance the online multiplayer gameplay systems that bring our players’ imaginative dreams to life. You'll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team to deliver robust and performant solutions.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and iterate on gameplay features, tools, and workflows to fulfill product requirements and delight players.
- Collaborate across disciplines to define architecture, identify focus areas, and deliver robust, scalable, and performant solutions.
- Partner with technical leaders to identify risks, create mitigation strategies, and ensure alignment on technical direction and standards.
- Contribute to improving development pipelines, workflows, and engine extensions to support efficient production.
- Champion player empathy and product sense in technical decision-making.
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of development experience in the game industry as a software engineer.
- Experience shipping an online multiplayer game built within various game engines (i.e. Unreal, Unity, etc.).
- Familiarity with game engine internals and modifying them as needed.
- Excellent skills debugging and optimizing online games.
- Experience collaborating with distributed teammates across multiple disciplines.
- Product sense, pragmatism, and player empathy in making tech decisions.
Nice to Have
- Experience developing gameplay systems in various game engines.
- Experience building or extending tools, workflows, or pipelines in various game engines.
- Familiarity with visual scripting systems.
- Experience working with agile development practices.
- Strong product sense and an understanding of what resonates with players in a given genre.
Technical Stack
- Unreal
- Unity
Team & Environment
Work in a team alongside producers, designers, artists, and other engineers.
Benefits & Compensation
- Open paid time off policy.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and life insurance.
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
- 401k with company match.
It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law.
