Open tech roles at companies in game development.
A staff-level full-stack engineer on Riot Games' Central Creative Tools team designs, builds, and maintains the studio's Digital Asset Management (DAM) tooling that powers content-creation workflows for game teams, leading multi-month to year-plus initiatives using Go, C++, C#, Unreal Engine, and AWS.
Riot Games is hiring a Principal Technical Product Manager to lead product strategy for VALORANT Foundations — the internal platforms (build/release pipelines, developer tools and editor, engine capabilities, backend services) that make the game predictable to build and operate. The role drives cross-team alignment and delivery, with emphasis on developer experience, CI/CD tooling, Unreal Engine,
Senior engineer on the Riot Client team building Riot's desktop launcher that millions of players use to install, discover, and play Riot games. Day-to-day is hands-on web-tech development (React.js, Node.js) with some C++ integration, technical design, cross-functional collaboration, and mentorship.
A principal-level engineer building and maintaining the UI frameworks and authoring tools used to create League of Legends experiences. Day to day it's hands-on C++ work with the Qt ecosystem plus Python tooling, mentoring juniors, participating in support rotation, and collaborating with engineers, designers, and artists across the org — based at Riot's Los Angeles HQ.
Staff-level C++/Unreal mobile engineer on Riot's Teamfight Tactics CoreTech team in Los Angeles, building and supporting the game on iOS and Android, resolving complex mobile-, engine-, and platform-level issues, and driving technical direction, engineering best practices, and mentoring across a multidisciplinary team.
Principal Game Designer at Riot Games in Los Angeles leading design for League of Legends' ARAM: Mayhem mode — designing Augments and content, mentoring other designers, and iterating live-service gameplay updates. Core craft areas are game design, systems/content design, and scripting.
Staff software engineer on Riot's Infrastructure team builds internal tooling and automation - Slack bots, AI agents, MCP servers, and deployment systems - to reduce toil for Riot engineers. Core stack includes Python/Go/Java/C++, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, and CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
Systems Engineer II on Riot Games' Game Operations team supporting Wild Rift in Sydney. Day to day: operating and automating production cloud infrastructure, tooling deployments and migrations, incident response, and improving observability and data integrity for the live game. Core stack: Linux, AWS/Tencent Cloud, Python/Go/Java, SQL.
Staff-level engineer on Riot Games' internal HR Tech & Systems team, building agentic AI solutions, data products, and enterprise integrations across Workday and Databricks while mentoring HR Tech engineers. Core focus: LLM/RAG agent engineering, Databricks (Unity Catalog, medallion architecture), and secure HR data pipelines.
Engineering manager at Riot Games Sydney leading a small team of staff software engineers building Unreal Engine-based core technology. The role blends people leadership (coaching, recruiting, performance) with technical direction in C++/Unreal Engine and delivery leadership supporting game development across Riot.
Staff software engineer on Riot's Unreal Ecosystem team focusing on engine performance: hands-on C++ work profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing Unreal Engine games, build/cook times, and developer tooling, while mentoring engineers and leading multi-month optimization efforts with game and infrastructure teams.
Staff software engineer on Riot Games' Unreal Ecosystem team in Los Angeles, driving engine performance and developer tooling: partnering with game teams to optimize player-facing performance, improving cook/build and editor load times, and building central tooling, CI/CD, and test automation. Core tech: C++, Unreal Engine, and profiling tools like Unreal Insights and Pix.
Principal engineer on the League of Legends team at Riot's Los Angeles office, driving the architecture and evolution of League's core game engine and the developer tools built on it. Day to day is hands-on C++ engine/tools work: building and maintaining systems, code reviews and testing, cross-discipline collaboration, mentoring, and an on-call rotation.
A Senior VFX Artist at Riot Games in Shanghai will create high-quality real-time in-game visual effects in Unreal Engine for an unpublished R&D game, helping set the project's VFX quality bar, leading early visual exploration, and collaborating with design, animation, tech art, and engineering. Requires 8+ years of game VFX experience and fluency in Mandarin.
Creates stylized, game-ready 3D character assets (modeling, sculpting, baking, texturing, in-game integration) for an unpublished Riot Games R&D title in Shanghai, collaborating across disciplines and with external partners. Core tools: Maya, ZBrush, Substance, Photoshop; Unreal Engine is a plus.
Senior Game Producer on Riot Games' Unpublished R&D Product team in Shanghai: builds the production-management foundation for an unannounced game — roadmaps, agile/lean processes, risk and dependency tracking, documentation, and mentoring project managers across cross-discipline teams. Needs 5+ years in game production and Mandarin/English.
Staff gameplay engineer at Riot Games' Shanghai studio working on an unannounced R&D game: prototyping with designers, implementing gameplay systems and engine features in C++ (Unreal Engine), shaping technical direction and engineering standards, and mentoring other engineers.
Senior engineer building the foundational tooling and engine systems for an unpublished R&D game at Riot Games in Sydney. Day to day: designing and shipping C++/Unreal Engine tools that power content-creation workflows, collaborating with design/art/engineering, and mentoring engineers, with some AI/ML-assisted tooling.
Senior-level engineer (internal title Software Engineer II) on Riot's Sydney VALORANT Personalisation team, building player-facing customization features (loadouts, agents, rewards) across PC and console. Work spans Unreal Engine client development and the live back-end services behind them, from technical discovery through launch, with on-call and mentoring duties.
Senior VFX Technical Artist at Riot Games (Sydney) building VFX systems, tools, and content pipelines for an unpublished R&D game in Unreal Engine. Day to day: prototyping Niagara-based effects, developing Houdini procedural workflows and artist-facing automation, and optimizing real-time VFX for performance and readability.
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