Riot Games
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Services - Game Tech Group, Anti-Cheat
Los Angeles, USA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
TypeScriptGoReactNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingIncident ResponseCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- 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!
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve shared backend platform services that power Vanguard systems across client, services, and internal tooling
- Own APIs and service contracts used by multiple teams, ensuring reliability, clarity, and long-term maintainability
- Lead the development of internal tools and web applications used for operations, investigations, configuration, and visibility
- Design and operate distributed backend systems with high availability and strong security guarantees
- Partner in incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements
- Collaborate across Anti-Cheat, Security, and Game teams as a trusted technical partner
- That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player.
- Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday.
- Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:
- 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.
Requirements
- Strong experience with backend service development and distributed systems
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs and shared services in a large or growing ecosystem
- Comfort operating and debugging live, production systems
- Experience working on platform teams or internal developer tooling
- Experience designing systems with security and adversarial thinking in mind
- Experience mentoring engineers at all levels
- A strong understanding of LLMs, Agentic AI based development, and their respective strengths and weaknesses
- For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players.
- Background supporting high-availability services or operational tooling
- Experience building developer platforms or sandbox environments for rapid experimentation
Skills
- Riot Engineers on Anti-Cheat are builders, trailblazers, and stewards of competitive integrity.
- You will report to the Engineering Manager of Platform Services within Anti-Cheat
Benefits
- 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 benefits pages for more information.
Company info
- At Riot Games, we put players first.
- Whether you're working directly on a new player-facing experience or you're supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission.
- If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we're looking forward to your application.
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