Manager, Software Engineering, Infrastructure - Protect Team

The Infrastructure team at Riot builds the foundation that enables our games to operate globally and securely at scale, ensuring the highest levels of network performance and quality for our players. If you are looking to have a direct, positive impact on the people who play and love our games, please join us to help make Riot the most player-focused game company in the world.

As an Manager, Software Engineering on the Protect Team, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager for the group and lead a team that creates software solutions to ensure the secure, scalable operations of Riot's global networks, providing support as they work with other infrastructure and game teams to solve essential problem areas in the network, security, and application delivery spaces.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 4-10 software engineers; coaching them, overseeing performance management, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring positive results.
• Manage the health and performance of the engineering team with empathy and authenticity, building trust and inspiring them to overcome challenges.
• Contribute to all parts of the employee life-cycle, including recruiting, hiring, managing, and mentoring engineers.
• Stay hands-on with your team's tech, overseeing the technical design and deliverables of the team and working with your team's technical lead.
• Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams at Riot to foster cross-team collaboration.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer or in a role directly supporting software engineering teams
• 2+ years experience managing an engineering team
• Expertise in full software development life cycle management
• Expertise in project management, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems.
• Experience delivering on multi-month or multi-year projects, establishing clear deliverables and reporting on progress.
• Experience collaborating across multiple teams and prioritizing work efforts.
• Familiarity with infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software design at high scale.

Desired Qualifications:

• Expertise in supporting agile development and operating production services
• Experience in product development and management
• Experience with networking and application delivery concepts
• Experience working with C or Golang
• Familiarity with Linux

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our for more information.

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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. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.