About this opportunity
Riot Games lists this Manager, Software Engineering - Publishing Platform, Core Game Loop opportunity in los angeles, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
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. As aManager, Software Engineering on the Core Game Loop team, you will partner with the teams that create every Riot game, central technology teams, and teams in Tencent to ensure we are making excellent decisions, upholding a high quality bar, and operating efficiently in service of those players. You'll identify opportunities to centralize functionality and architect solutions that enable scalability and reliability worldwide. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Game Foundations org within the Publishing Platform.
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
Required Qualifications
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
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Worksite address
los angeles, CA, 90079, US
Who can apply
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