Staff Software Engineer (Platform Services, Game Tech Group, Anti-Cheat)

Join Riot Games as a Staff Software Engineer on the Vanguard Platform Services team. In this hands-on role, you will design, build, and evolve shared backend platform services that power Vanguard systems. You will collaborate with engineers, stakeholders, and anti-cheat experts to create impactful tools and services for players. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, family care, open paid time off, retirement matching, a play fund, and donation matching.

• Design, build, and evolve shared backend platform services that power Vanguard systems across client, services, and internal tooling.
• Lead the development of internal tools and web applications used for operations, investigations, configuration, and visibility.
• Identify and reduce systemic risks across the platform (scalability, operability, security, maintainability).
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs and shared services in a large or growing ecosystem
• Staff-level experience building and owning backend platforms and internal tools used by multiple teams
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• Significant experience building internal tools or web applications using modern web stacks (e.g.,Golang, React, Node.js, TypeScript)
• Comfort operating and debugging live, production systems
• Strong architectural judgment and experience influencing key technical decisions
• Experience designing systems with security and adversarial thinking in mind
• Experience working on platform teams or internal developer tooling
• Experience mentoring engineers at all levels
• Background supporting high-availability services or operational tooling
• Experience building developer platforms or sandbox environments for rapid experimentation
• A strong understanding of LLMs, Agentic AI based development, and their respective strengths and weaknesses
• Strong experience with backend service development and distributed systems (e.g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)