Senior Software Engineer, Roblox
NPC Behavior
$196.8-243.3k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$196.8-243.3k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 5+ years of experience and you’ve designed and led implementation on highly scalable and reliable distributed backend systems. You have hands-on experience in microservices. You have hands-on experience with game engines
- Knowledge: You are proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, Lua, C++, Go, Python or similar programming language). Deep understanding of C++ is a plus, familiarity with game engines is a plus, familiarity with machine learning is a plus
- Curiosity: You are curious and passionate about industry trends and new technologies, you are able to apply them to practical problems innovatively
- Strong Teamwork: You are able to drive cross-functional projects and collaborate with teams to deliver the most curated technical solution
- Long-term Mindset: You are willing to take the long-term to build the system, and your design choices and technical solutions are usually still optimal multiple years into the future
What the job involves
- The Creator Service NPC team is the heartbeat behind our worldwide gaming experiences
- We aim to build the best NPC tools for creators
- Our product covers play testing, in game NPC as well as digital players
- We are using technologies from LLM, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Behavior Trees, Statement Machines
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build highly scalable systems to help creators to continuously deliver experiences that feel native and seamless
- You will help us to build and maintain data pipelines, visualisation, feature transformation, annotation tools and work on inference set ups within and on top of our game engine
- Tackle and solve challenging full-stack problems that touch the client, game engine, backend services and machine learning models
- Own product areas and projects from technical design, execution, launch, and quick iteration based on feedback
- Work closely with product, design, and partner teams to maintain high execution quality and pace
- Proactively gather community feedback and respond swiftly to their needs, ensuring our products evolve to deliver exceptional value
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations - turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
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 platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & 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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