Staff Software Engineer, Progression - VALORANT
Location: Mercer Island
Posted on: June 23, 2025
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Job Description:
Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas
but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader
domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects
that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You’ll
lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear
illustration of extraordinary engineering. VALORANT is Riot’s take
on a character-based tactical shooter (for more info on VALORANT
click here!). As a Staff Software Engineer on the VALORANT team you
will be responsible for building metagame client features and
scalable backend services for progression systems throughout
VALORANT. Youll influence the technical direction for how VALORANT
services are built, scale and are operated in production, and
collaborate with design to build smooth and intuitive player-facing
in-game experiences. All the systems you design and build will be
“Player Focused”, meaning striving for the goal of motivating
players to choose to engage with them, rather than feeling
pressured to. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the
Progression team. Responsibilities: • Create and/or contribute to
best practices, development processes and coding standards;
demonstrate a high bar of craft excellence for your team • Design,
build and deliver full-stack, in-game features enabling players to
have a world-class experience • Design, build, and deliver large
scale backend services to support millions of players • Collaborate
closely with Production, Game Design and UI/UX disciplines • Mentor
and grow other engineers on the team Required Qualifications: • 6
years of experience as a software engineer • BS degree or
equivalent experience • Experience with C++, C#, Java, Golang, or
similar language(s) Desired Qualifications: • Professional
experience working with cloud computing and cloud technologies •
Professional experience building large scale backend systems or
game services • Professional experience building player- or
user-facing frontend experiences (e.g. web, mobile, game) •
Professional experience working with the Go programming language •
Professional or academic experience working with C++ • Professional
or hobby experience working with the Unreal Engine
Keywords: , Olympia , Staff Software Engineer, Progression - VALORANT, IT / Software / Systems , Mercer Island, Washington
