Software Engineering Intern – Summer time 2026 (Remote)

Software Engineers at Riot deliver deep information of particular technical areas and likewise worth the chance to work in lots of broader domains. Our engineers are player-focused and purpose to search out options that make gamers excited to expertise our video games. 

As a Software Engineering Intern, you’ll be uncovered to each new and present know-how whereas constructing revolutionary options to beat high-volume obstacles and ship participant worth.

Applying to this function will present eligibility for all software program engineering intern roles open throughout our merchandise. We will do our greatest to match you with a product and crew that matches your pursuits and expertise, however notice that it additionally will depend on availability. 

Potential Responsibilities:

• Collaborate carefully with different builders to create player-facing options for League, TFT, VALORANT, or 2XKO
• Build back-end companies to permit our video games to benefit from shared social, shopper and platform options
• Write code to deal with processing actual time information of our varied recreation groups
• Learn to function companies on a worldwide scale for tens of millions of gamers 
• Build and preserve SDKs and APIs which can be utilized by inner recreation prospects to energy their video games

Required Qualifications:

• Graduating within the 2027 calendar yr 
• Currently enrolled in a Computer Science, Engineering, or Technology associated diploma program
• Knowledge of knowledge buildings and algorithms
• Coding expertise with an object-oriented programming (OOP) language (e.g. Java, C++, C#)
• Available to work full-time hours for the 12 week internship period
• Eligible to work within the nation that you simply reside in throughout this distant program
• Minimum GPA of two.5

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience as a software program developer, together with internships or part-time 
• Experience with software program growth life cycle (SDLC) and agile growth practices
• Familiarity with software program growth finest practices like unit testing, useful testing, integration testing, steady integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Portfolio or web site hyperlink (e.g github) with assortment of authentic work and/or initiatives
• Experience engaged on a online game or associated challenge

For this function, you will discover success via craft experience, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of gamers. We will likely be your previous research, expertise, and your private relationship with video games. If you embody participant empathy and care about gamers’ experiences, this may very well be your function!

Applications shut October thirty first, 2025 at 11:59pm PT 

Our Perks:

Riot Internships are paid, and interns also can take part in our 401(okay) plan. You can anticipate in-game perks, and the flexibility to take part in our Play Fund, so you may broaden and deepen your information of our gamers and neighborhood via video games. The University Programs crew additionally invitations you to intern targeted occasions so you may join along with your fellow interns and Rioters to take advantage of out of your expertise.

Riot Games fosters a participant and office expertise that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner’s Code and Community Code. Our tradition embraces variations as a power, and our values are the guiding rules for the way we method work. We are dedicated to placing range and inclusion (D&I) on the heart of every part we do, and selling a good and collaborative tradition the place Rioters deal with each other with dignity and respect. We encourage you to learn extra about our price of thriving collectively and our ongoing work to construct the most inclusive firm in Gaming.

It’s our coverage to supply equal employment alternative for all candidates and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes cheap lodging for handicapped and disabled Rioters and doesn’t unlawfully discriminate on the premise of race, shade, faith, intercourse, sexual orientation, gender id or expression, nationwide origin, age, handicap, veteran standing, marital standing, felony historical past, or every other class protected by relevant federal and state regulation. We think about for employment all certified candidates, together with these with felony histories, in a fashion in keeping with relevant federal, state and native regulation, together with the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the next core duties might create a foundation for disqualifying candidates with related felony histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and delicate Company information
• Communication with others, together with Rioters and third events reminiscent of distributors, and/or gamers, together with minors
• Accessing Company belongings, safe digital techniques, and networks
• Ensuring a secure interactive setting for gamers and different Rioters

These duties are immediately associated to important operations, security, belief, and compliance obligations inside our group. Please notice that job duties might evolve primarily based on enterprise wants and extra obligations could also be assigned as crucial to keep up operational effectivity and safety. 

(Remote Only) The hourly charge for this internship is USD $56.59 hourly