Manager, Software Engineering - Infrastructure / Cloud Foundations

As a part of the Riot Infrastructure Team, you'll be part of the core group of engineers that build our infrastructure that enables our games to operate globally at scale. You will work across all infrastructure and game teams to automate all aspects of our infrastructures to enable teams to be more efficient and productive. If you are looking to have an impact across different aspects of Riot infrastructure, join us and pioneer solutions that will help us scale to the next level.

As an Engineering Manager on the CIT (Core Infrastructure) Team, you’ll be leading a team/teams that are focused on enabling Riot engineers to reduce toil and inefficiency via tooling and automation. You will support the team as it collaborates with other teams across not just infrastructure but also across Riot to solve critical problem areas where tooling and automation are keys to the solution.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 3-8 software engineers, coaching them, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability.

• Stay hands-on with your team’s tech, overseeing the technical design and deliverables of the team and working closely with your team’s technical lead.

• Manage the health and performance of the engineering team with empathy and authenticity, building trust, and inspiring them to overcome challenges. 

• Grow the team through hiring and construct an efficient onboarding process for new team members .

• Build healthy relationships with other engineering teams at Riot to foster cross-team collaboration.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as an infrastructure, software or automation engineer.

• 4+ years experience directly leading an engineering team

• Expertise with full development life cycle

• Expertise in project management, prioritization frameworks and guiding investment strategies in people and systems.

• Experience collaborating across departments to create solutions.

• Understand core infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software at high scale

Desired Qualifications

• Experience operating and supporting agile development, production services, and high availability

• Experience developing using cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) using containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

• Understand networking - HTTP down to the network layer (TCP/IP, routing, etc.)

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!