Riot Games · Ireland
Join Riot Games as the Manager of Software Engineering (SRE Site Lead: Dublin ROC). In this role, you will lead the Dublin ROC site, ensuring high-quality live response and actively growing the engineering skillset of your team. You will manage the site's engineering staff, response coverage, and project work, while also serving as the site's technical lead. This position offers a range of benefits, including healthcare, open paid time off, retirement matching, and a play fund.
- You’re right for this role if the idea of growing a new kind of engineering team at Riot and coaching engineers to succeed excites you
- Demonstrated experience working in container-based ecosystems and with a container scheduler (e.g. Marathon, Mesos, Kubernetes, GKE, Amazon ECS)
- Demonstrated experience as an Incident Commander, leading incidents with authority regardless of the other titles or roles present
- Demonstrated experience triaging software in large production systems that you yourself didn't write
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or relevant professional experience
- Demonstrated experience leading and implementing SRE best practices and actively developing engineers in the SRE space
- Demonstrated experience designing, writing, prioritizing, and maintaining high-capacity, high-availability, and high-performance software, especially back-end services
- 2+ Years experience as a Senior Software Engineer or higher
- Demonstrated experience eliminating alert fatigue with proper alerting design
- 2+ Years experience performance managing engineers including hiring, coaching, and career development
- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple organizations and generate alignment on technical standards
- 4+ Years working in a high performance Site Reliability capacity
- Experience working in a global follow-the-sun model, with proficiency in communicating across timezones
- Understanding of relational databases such as MySQL
- Experience with distributed systems, specifically microservices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally Jenkins, Github Actions, or equivalent
- Understanding of software performance and the influence of latency in online games
- Experience with AWS (or comparable cloud environments)