Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Backend, Communication
$315.9-383.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office ( San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$315.9-383.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office ( San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- If you are an expert developer with a deep understanding of large scale systems and enjoy shaping engineering vision, you’ll be right at home within our highly-skilled and rapidly growing team
- Fluency in backend software development
- Proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database technology at scale
- 8+ years proven experience building and supporting highly available and large-scale distributed fault tolerant services in production environments
- Experience with low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
- Experience in networking protocols (HTTP, UDP, GRPC, Web Sockets)
- Responsible: you build systems that work and keep on working optimally. You are thorough in your designs, meticulous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions
- Versatile: you’re a generalist and you have mastered one or more object oriented languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt to any situation when the need emerges and come up with the right solution
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our end users and game developers
- Team-oriented: You are able to work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. Able to write clear design specs, mentor junior engineers, and guide projects from beginning to end
- Data-driven: focused on quality metrics and monitoring
- Experienced with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 8 years of hands-on experience
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer, Communication, you’ll define service architecture that empowers safe and flawless ways for people to express themselves in different modalities better than in real life with Voice, Camera, and Text, at scale
- You will work with various teams (Game Engine, Safety, ML platform) and products including backend services working at high scale, data pipelines, ML models, and tools to ensure safe and civil multimodal communication experiences
- Build the next gen software & systems to support Roblox's substantial user growth, while supporting the existing systems that can already handle millions of concurrent users. This may involve building backend services working at high scale, ML models, or tools to support our operation teams
- Shape how the next generation of internet users interacts safely in the metaverse
- Define and build platform features to support product teams across the company in ensuring safety in every aspect of real time communication at Roblox
- Collaborate with product and design to push the boundary of what is possible
- Use the best programming practices, optimizing code to be performant
- Help recruit future talent for the team
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
David Baszucki
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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