Staff Software Engineer, Core Services - VALORANT

Riot Games

Full-time Australia, New South Wales Computer Occupations

Posted:

February 24, 2026

Location:

Australia, New South Wales, Australia

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Lead development of VALORANT’s services platform as part of a distributed team across Sydney and the US.

Guide the technical design, development and operation of services, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability.

Champion the technical vision for your team with production and other engineering teams.

Advocate for players, your team, and internal development customers when deciding what to build and why. Coordinate with other teams across Riot and in Tencent working on, delivering and operating services.

Serve as technical lead on projects, designing technical solutions and reviewing others’ to anticipate disruptions or complexities. Write critical portions of code and shepherd solutions to successful deployment and operation.

Plan and sequence the parallel rollout of major system changes using technical designs and instruction.

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Australia, Australia

Posted: February 24, 2026

Deadline: April 05, 2026