At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Location
- Sydney
About the role
- Riot Games is looking for a Systems Engineer to join the Game Operations team supporting Wild Rift.
- You will help operate and improve the infrastructure, services, and tools that support reliable live-service operations for the game.
- This is a hands-on role focused on automation, production support, incident response, observability, data integrity, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Operate and improve the production infrastructure, cloud services, data platforms, and operational systems that support Wild Rift.
- Build automation and tooling for deployments, migrations, validation, capacity management, and routine operations.
- Troubleshoot distributed systems and participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-up improvements.
- Support releases and operational changes while maintaining service continuity and data integrity.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and other operational documentation.
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, capacity, and infrastructure cost.
- Collaborate with global technical partners and provide day-to-day support and guidance to operations teams.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience, RHCE, RHCSA.
- 2+ years of industry experience or an advanced degree.
- Professional experience in systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
- Experience supporting production services, preferably in a high-availability or live-service environment.
- Working knowledge of Linux, networking, cloud infrastructure, storage, compute, and distributed systems.
- Experience with AWS Cloud and/or Tencent Cloud.
- Ability to write maintainable automation or production code in Python, Go, Java, or a comparable language.
- Working knowledge of SQL and data-platform concepts, including data movement, replication, validation, and operational integrity.
- Familiarity with Git-based configuration management, infrastructure as code, or deployment automation.
- Professional fluency in Mandarin and English, with the ability to work across time zones and technical disciplines.
Benefits
- Open paid time off policy
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work schedules
- Co-op gaming areas
- Play fund
- Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness fund
- Donation matching
- Learning and Development opportunities
Skills
- Python
- Go
- Java
- Linux
- AWS Cloud
- Tencent Cloud
- SQL
- Git
- Kubernetes
- Redis
- OpenSearch
- Elasticsearch
