Senior Systems Travel Engineer - Esports Event Technology

Overview

At Riot Games, we’re committed to delivering unforgettable esports experiences to fans around the globe. With the growth of the Riot Games Arena and our Remote Broadcast Centers (RBCs), we’re scaling our technological capabilities to innovate world-class tournaments for League of Legends, VALORANT, and Wild Rift. As a Systems Engineer in the Esports Event Technology (EET) Team, you will support a team focused on building, supporting and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling and applications that power Riot\’s esports events around the world. You will work in a self-guiding, cross-functional team with highly skilled individuals to ensure that Riot\’s infrastructure is capable of supporting all Riot Esports initiatives. This role will require international travel as we support global and regional events. Expected travel is up to 40% per year and this role will be based at the Riot Games Arena – Berlin, GE.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for technical systems, applications and services that power our live events around the world.
• Design, support and maintain our global esports infrastructure and systems.
• Work on a diverse, cross-functional team.
• Collaborate across departments and mentor engineering teammates.
• Train and coach our TechOps teams on technical processes and procedures to ensure successful events and efficient operations.
• Work a non-standard schedule.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5+ years as a Systems, Support or Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on building consumer or player facing products.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support Riot Esports events.
• Experience with Ansible and Terraform for automation and configuration management.
• Experience with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, AOS).
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with imaging and deployment tools (e.g., FOG, SCCM, Autopilot).
• Experience operating & maintaining live services on Linux and Windows bases, including handling emergent issues and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with server and network hardware installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Physical Requirements

• Occasionally required to lift 10/15 kilograms.
• Occasionally required to push/pull road cases.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building or maintaining global infrastructure, systems at scale.
• Experience managing monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Experience with scripting languages like Go, Python, Powershell, or Bash.
• Experience using GIT for version control.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• RHCE/RHCSA certification.

Perks

We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and support charitable donations of time and money. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund to broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.