The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and compensation, making it appealing to applicants.
Job description
Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played PC game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.
Responsibilities
- Utilize standard monitoring and processes to assess the health of Riot’s live services
- Lead the investigation and mitigation of live incidents as an Incident Commander, and participate in post-incident RCAs
- Use investigation and troubleshooting to return impacted systems to service quickly and keep our games green for players
- Identify improvements to the team’s tools, processes, and documentation, as well as broader improvements to prevent incidents and drive down incident impact for Riot’s live services
- Write tooling, automation, and services to implement these improvements
- Write and understand code in the team’s codebases, utilizing appropriate data structures, algorithms, and software testing best practices
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- 2+ years of industry experience or an advanced degree
- Hands-on experience programming in Java or Go
- Experience with technical processes such as code reviews and testing
- Experience debugging issues with production systems
- Experience with monitoring and event management platform
Conditions
- Full relocation support
- Comprehensive health insurance for you, your spouse, and children
- Open paid time off
- Retirement benefits with company matching
- Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability
- Play Fund so you can deepen your knowledge of our players and community through games
- We’ll double down on your donations of time and money to non-profits
About Riot Games
Riot Games is a video game developer and publisher best known for League of Legends and VALORANT, focusing on competitive esports, live-service games, and player engagement tools. They build services, web apps, and platforms for third-party developers, content creators, and esports events. The company operates globally with a strong emphasis on engineering, product management, and events production.
