Manager, Software Engineering - Content Access Platform
Company: Riot Games
Location: Mercer Island
Posted on: March 19, 2026
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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 an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide an engineering
team through all the phases of the software development and
operations lifecycle. You’ll also serve as a people manager,
mentor, and coach for the engineers, overseeing performance
management, growth opportunities, and accountability. The Content
Access Platform (CAP) team runs large-scale, globally distributed
systems for millions of players. CAP creates the systems that power
the purchasing and fulfillment experiences that all of Riots
players use. Custom catalogs for virtual goods, a full featured
gifting system, and a robust, multi-stage fulfillment pipeline are
only a few of the mission critical services the team builds and
operates. Your passion and relentless drive to deliver players
value will help us unlock and power new experiences that delight
our players. As a Software Engineering Manager within the CAP group
of teams, you will lead the engineering team that builds and
operates the services that enable game teams to successfully ship
their content to players. You will partner with the teams that
create every Riot game, central technology teams, and teams in
Tencent to ensure we are making excellent decisions, upholding a
high quality bar, and operating efficiently in service of those
players. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager
for the Content Access Platform group of teams. Responsibilities :
• Manage a team of 6-10 Software and QA Engineers; coaching them,
providing performance management, identifying growth opportunities,
and ensuring positive results • Partner and collaborate with
Product Leads, Delivery Leads, and Technical Leads within the team
and within Content Access Platform to align on the plan the team
executes against • Align with service teams across Content Access
Platform, and the wider Player Platform business unit, on product
configuration pipelines and tooling, and best practices for using
them • Support the technical vision and roadmap by allocating
engineers and skill sets to meet goals and deliver results • Own
the interviewing and onboarding process for new engineering team
members • Be accountable for the technical health of the products
owned by the team • Stay hands-on with the teams tech, overseeing
the technical design and deliverables of the team and working with
the teams technical leadership • Regularly engage with the codebase
by participating in code reviews and non-critical tasks • Build
healthy relationships with other engineering teams across Riot
globally, in order to foster cross-team collaboration Required
Qualifications: • Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science
or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • 5 years
experience as a Software Engineer, preferably on technical product
teams that built tooling for services and APIs • 2 years experience
directly leading an engineering team either as an Engineering
Manager or Technical Lead • Experience managing engineers and
actively participating in their growth and development • Experience
recruiting candidates and growing an engineering team • Experience
with distributed systems, microservices, and software at a high
scale • Experience operating and maintaining live services,
including handling emergent issues and on-call troubleshooting
Desired Qualifications: • Experience building services using Java,
Kotlin, or Go • Experience developing using cloud infrastructure
(such as AWS, GCP), using containers and orchestration (such as
Docker, Kubernetes), managed using infrastructure as code (such as
Terraform, Ansible) • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (such as
GitHub Actions, Jenkins) • Experience with relational databases
(such as MySQL) • Experience with event driven architectures and
technologies (such as Kafka) For this role, youll 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!
Keywords: Riot Games, Bellevue , Manager, Software Engineering - Content Access Platform, IT / Software / Systems , Mercer Island, Washington
