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Senior Manager, Software Engineering - League Studio, Build, Test, Ship

Riot Games

Los Angeles, CA 03-15-2025
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  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Chemtech Platform, you will lead the developer infrastructure team that powers LOL and TFT. This team encompasses the dev environments, build and deploy tools, quality framework and processes that empower both game and service devs across the studio. You will set the technical direction for the overall developer workflow for the studio and be accountable for the outcome of your engineering team. You will partner with production leaders to enable the development of League Studio's next generation of games and experiences. You will report to the Initiative Engineering Director. This role will be based in Los Angeles.

Responsibilities
• Manage a team of highly skilled managers and engineers, overseeing performance management, identifying growth opportunities, and ensuring positive results.
• Manage and socialize an engineering vision for the team, including working with other leaders to create a long-term organization and staffing plan that supports technical product goals.
• Contribute to all parts of the employee life-cycle, including budgets, recruiting, hiring, managing, and mentoring engineers, as well as managing contingent staff.
• Partner with your Technical Leads to provide technical direction throughout the product life cycle while continuously improving the software engineering quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management and technical production, to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable solutions.
• Foster effective communication and collaboration within engineering teams and across other departments.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, guiding the team in adopting best practices and ensuring the technical excellence of our products.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in developing developer tools.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams as a manager of managers
• Extensive experience overseeing teams who are developing CI/CD, build and release tooling
• Expertise with Java, C++, or similar language(s) and other CS fundamentals.
• Expertise with CS fundamentals including system design, data structures, and algorithms.
• In-depth knowledge of standard engineering best practices, techniques, and methodologies to drive quality outcomes.
• Experience collaborating across multiple teams, departments, and disciplines to create solutions.
• Experience in project management, prioritization frameworks, and guiding investment strategies in people and systems.
Desired Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Familiar with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, MS Azure.
• Familiar with CI/CD tools and framework.
• Experience leading full-stack teams.
• Experience leading remote teams.
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $229,200.00 - $319,500.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvqbbm-18-217-207-109-42 in your application.

Salary Details
Salary Range: $218,300 to $304,300 Per Year ($ USD)
Company Profile
Riot Games

Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, we released our debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports.