About the company
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide an engineering team through all the phases of the software development and operations lifecycle. You’ll also serve as a people manager, mentor, and coach for the engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability.
The Core Game Loop owns services that power the player experience while they are in game and deliver data to downstream services after a game is completed. This includes game provisioning, game data delivery, and services that power leaderboards and match history. By concentrating expertise in game platforms, we are able to offer robust, scalable features to all current and future Riot games.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 5+ software engineers; coaching them, providing performance management, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring positive results
- Partner and collaborate with Product Leads, Delivery Leads, and Technical Leads within the team and within Game Foundations org to align on the plan the team executes against
- Support the technical vision and roadmap by allocating engineers and skill sets to meet goals and deliver results
- Own the interviewing and onboarding process for new engineering team members
- Be accountable for the technical health of the products owned by the team
- Stay hands-on with the team's tech, overseeing the technical design, and deliverables of the team and working with the team's technical leadership
- Regularly engage with the codebase by participating in code reviews and non-critical tasks
- Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams across Riot globally, in order to foster cross-team collaboration
- Own and operate live services, meeting reliability expectations, handling emergent issues, and supporting engineers during on-call troubleshooting
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer, preferably on technical product teams that build tooling for services and APIs
- 2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team either as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead
- Experience managing engineers and actively participating in their growth and development
- Experience recruiting candidates and growing an engineering team
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and software at a high scale
- Experience operating and maintaining live services, including handling emergent issues and on-call troubleshooting
Conditions
- 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.