Manager, Software Engineering, Infrastructure - Protect Team

Job Description

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!

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $192,500.00 - $269,400.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rokw73-3-148-250-202-42 in your application.