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Overview

Riot Games is a global video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill and acquired by Tencent in 2011, the company is best known for creating League of Legends, one of the most played PC games and dominant esports titles in the world. Riot's product portfolio includes the tactical shooter VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and the fighting game 2XKO, alongside its multimedia production wing responsible for the Emmy Award-winning animated series Arcane.

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News riotgames.com 5 months ago
League and other Riot Games require age verification in Brazil from March 17
Esta iniciativa faz parte das obrigações previstas no Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA).
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Technologies

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Tech DNA
C++
Python
C#
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Playwright
Redis
MySQL
Milvus
AWS
GCP
Azure
LLM
Claude
Gaussian Splatting
AI/ML
C++
Python
SQL
Scala
CI/CD
AWS
Platform Engineering
AI Agents
Kubernetes
GCP
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Docker
Terraform
Git
Reinforcement Learning
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
Jenkins
JAX
Spark
SLI/SLO/SLA
Azure
GitHub
LLM
LLM Guardrails
Databricks
Incident Management
GitHub Actions
Pulumi
Amazon ECS
Vertex AI
dbt
pySpark
Redis
Self-Healing
Netlify
Vercel
Ansible
Datadog
Blue-Green Deployment
Chaos Engineering
CloudFormation
Progressive Delivery
Configuration Management
HPC
IAM
Computer Vision
Flink
Ray
Airflow
AutoGen
Claude
CrewAI
LangChain
LangGraph
Pydantic AI
RAG
Diffusion Models
Feast
KServe
Triton
Accelerate
Anomaly Detection
Gaussian Splatting
Feature Store
Amazon SageMaker
Anthropic
OpenAI
TorchServe
Text-to-Speech
NeRF
Edge AI
PyQt
MySQL
Milvus
Multimodal AI
Transformers
Qt
Games
C#
HLSL
GLSL
Unreal Engine
Unity
Houdini
RenderDoc
Nanite
Marmoset Toolbag
Substance 3D Designer
Unreal Niagara
QA
Go
Java
Groovy
Playwright
Cypress
Postman
SoapUI
Swagger
TestRail
Frontend
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Maya
React.js
3ds Max
Sketch
Adobe After Effects
Electron
ZBrush
Axure RP
Blender
Cinema 4D
Adobe XD
Next.js
Substance 3D Painter
Other
Kotlin
PowerShell
Jira
Imitation Learning
Apache Kafka
GDPR
Tableau
ETL/ELT
Miro
Spring Boot
GraphQL
A/B Testing
Firebase
Kotlin Multiplatform
Notion
Confluence
Slack
n8n
ServiceNow
Stack modernity Cutting-edge AI adopter
81/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Unreal Engine 34 jobs Required
$269k +108% vs market
C++ 31 job Required
$269k +35% vs market
CI/CD 19 jobs Required
$269k +68% vs market
Python 17 jobs Required
$306k +70% vs market
C# 14 jobs Required
$320k +137% vs market
Unity 12 jobs Required
$269k +114% vs market
AWS 12 jobs Required
$269k +46% vs market
Go 11 jobs Required
$269k +32% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
13%
SQL
12%
JavaScript
11%
CI/CD
11%
Git
10%
AWS
10%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
IAM Aug 2026
Edge AI Aug 2026
GitHub Aug 2026
ETL/ELT Aug 2026
HPC Aug 2026
LLM Guardrails Aug 2026
Amazon ECS Aug 2026
NeRF Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$269k
Typical range
$172k – $438k
Open positions
43
43 Jobs
Middle 4.7%
Senior 23.3%
Staff 39.5%
Principal 30.2%
Architect 2.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 2 $191k $172k – $210k
Senior 10 $245k $227k – $320k
Staff 17 $269k $227k – $320k
Principal 13 $320k $233k – $438k
Architect 1 $338k $338k
Highest paying role Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Personalization, Matchmaking, & Player Experience AI) - Publishing Platform $438k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
116
6 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
86 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
08/31/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
18%
Games
18%
Design
15%
Product
14%
AI/ML
11%
QA
8%
Actively hiring for Games (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Mercer Island Aug 2026
Added IAM to stack Aug 2026
Added Edge AI to stack Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Aug 2026
Added HPC to stack Aug 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Aug 2026
Added Amazon ECS to stack Aug 2026
Added NeRF to stack Aug 2026
Added Text-to-Speech to stack Aug 2026
Added TorchServe to stack Aug 2026
Added ServiceNow to stack Aug 2026

Jobs

Manager, Visual Design Art - TFT

Verified live · 1 hour ago 3 days ago
$129k – $235k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Los Angeles
Unreal Engine
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
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Staff Software Engineer, Build Services - Teamfight Tactics

Verified live · 1 hour ago 3 days ago
$188k – $352k per year (Estimated) • In office • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
C#
C++
Java
CI/CD
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Management
Slack
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Senior User Experience Designer - Unpublished R&D Product

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
In office • Guangzhou
Unity
Design
Axure RP
Figma
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Rendering Technical Artist II - League of Legends (Contract)

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
$29k – $110k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid • Contractor • 4+ years exp • Singapore
Python
Git
Game Dev
GLSL
HLSL
Marmoset Toolbag
RenderDoc
Unity
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Maya
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Visual Designer - Wild Rift (Contract)

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
In office • Contractor • 5+ years exp • Shanghai
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
Cinema 4D
Figma
Management
Miro
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Principal Software Engineer, Game - Unpublished R&D Product

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
$162k – $329k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Los Angeles
C++
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Senior Software Engineer - Hextech, Gameplay

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
$79k – $224k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sydney
C++
CI/CD
GitHub
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Technical Producer II - Publishing Platform, Commerce

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
$150k – $210k per year • In office • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Figma
Management
Jira
Miro
Notion
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Level Design Lead - VALORANT

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
$167k – $233k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • PhD • Los Angeles
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技术美术,渲染 - Unpublished R&D Product (Contract)

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
In office • Contractor • Shanghai
HLSL
RenderDoc
Substance 3D Designer
Unreal Niagara
Unreal Engine
Design
Adobe Photoshop
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Visual Design Artist - Unpublished R&D Product (Contract)

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
In office • Contractor • Guangzhou
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VFX Artist - Unpublished R&D Product (Contract)

Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago
In office • Contractor • Guangzhou
HLSL
Houdini
RenderDoc
Design
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
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