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Senior Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure - Riot Technology

Riot Games · Los Angeles, USA; Mercer Island, USA; Redwood City, USA

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
64 days
Riot Games's roles stay open a median of 81 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
3% of Riot Games's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Riot Games
high
107 stale, 3 reposted of 107 open
Hiring momentum
225 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-23

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Riot Games's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Riot Games.

About this role

As a Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer at Riot Technology, you will design, build, and operate core infrastructure and machine learning platforms that support large-scale distributed training and evaluation. Your role involves working with Kubernetes, GPU clusters, and CI/CD processes, while collaborating with various teams to enhance the reliability and performance of the infrastructure. You will also be responsible for improving operational maturity and mentoring other engineers.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Riot Games as an employer.

What you need

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE roles
  • Experience operating distributed systems in production and keeping them healthy under real load
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, AWS or GCP, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, deployment automation, and production tooling
  • Experience with GPU compute infrastructure, including scheduling, multi-node orchestration, and resource optimization for long-running training workloads
  • Proficiency in Python and solid understanding of networking, microservices, core infrastructure services, and distributed systems fundamentals

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with MLOps workflows such as model versioning, pipeline orchestration, experiment tracking, artifact management, and reproducible ML workflows
  • Experience with distributed training or HPC frameworks, inference serving, systems languages, high-performance networking, Unreal/client-server architecture, AI-assisted development tools
  • Passion for games and player experience

What you get

  • Open paid time off policy
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
  • 401k with company match

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Role involves significant independent work and influence on technical direction
  • Focus on player experience may require a strong personal interest in gaming

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Listed by Riot Games on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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