Hiring: Manager, Software Engineering, Core Services - VALORANT Company: Riot Games Location: Mercer Island, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:18:37 Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, C#, C++, Go, Java, Kanban, Scrum About the job Experience: •5+ years professional experience as a software engineer working in services development roles. •2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team as an Engineering Manager. Required Skills: •Manage a team of 5-10 Software Engineers across experience levels. •Ensure VALORANT Players receive a consistently great services experience in Riot and Tencent regions. •Serve as a hands-on engineering leader, comfortable contributing across all phases of the product lifecycle, including implementation. •Develop a technical vision for your team, working with production and product partners to ensure consistency with overall product goals. Communicate this vision to your team clearly. •Advocate for Players, your team, and internal development customers when deciding what to build and why. Coordinate with other teams across Riot and Tencent working on Services technology. •Ensure high technical quality of what your team produces. Establish mechanisms to ensure your engineers have room to invent while maintaining a technical backstop for them. •Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team. Find and surface issues, opportunities, and address them head-on. Celebrate wins. •Coach and develop your engineering team to grow in their roles, develop technical skills, and improve their effectiveness. Qualifications: •Professional experience driving technical direction and influencing architecture within a team. •Expertise with C#, Java, Golang, or similar language(s). •Professional experience with Lean or Agile development processes. •Professional experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies. •Professional experience building large-scale external customer-facing backend systems, game services, or cloud platforms. •Fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese and English; comfortable communicating technically in both languages. •Professional or academic experience working with C++. •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 the experiences of players, this could be the role for you! Compensation: •Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!