Principal Engineer, Roblox
Account Authentication
$283.8-331.6k
+ equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$283.8-331.6k
+ equity
More information about location
3+ 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
- This role is for someone who wants to be a technical leader in making account authentication and security child proof
- 9+ years of experience developing user facing products
- Experience landing high profile features on a cross platform project. Wherever users engage with Roblox, account authentication and security needs to work seamlessly
- Experience developing authentication or security features on some combination of thick client development on the web, consoles, iOS, or Android
- Proficiency with one of Lua, C++. Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, or Swift
- Experience with internal cross-functional product/customer support
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated complicated technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence
- Expert in scalably building features that work on multiple platforms
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions
- Willing to experiment. We are a data informed team. Experiments are a crucial part of that
- User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger
What the job involves
- This is an excellent opportunity for a product engineer with expertise working on complex thick clients solving user authentication or account security problems to have a large scale impact
- As a Principal Software Engineer on Roblox’s Account Authentication team you will be responsible for collaborating with product managers, data scientists, immediate management, and executives to decompose strategic problems facing the Roblox community into smaller, more tractable, problems and subsequently craft creative, unconventional, technical solutions
- Collaborate cross-organizationally with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and management at all levels
- Decompose strategic problems facing the Roblox community into smaller, more tractable problems
- Craft creative, unconventional technical solutions that will improve the usability, security, and scalability of Roblox accounts
- Provide technical leadership to an immediate working group of 12 ICs, helping them to implement, test, experiment and maintain strategic user facing authentication and account security features in Roblox’s thick client app
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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