Principal Software Engineer, Roblox

Brand Platform

$283.8-331.6k

+ Equity

Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

Roblox

Online gaming & entertainment platform

Be an early applicant

Roblox

Online gaming & entertainment platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Be an early applicant

$283.8-331.6k

+ Equity

Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Company mission

To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.

Role

Who you are

  • Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code
  • Successfully shipped large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
  • Demonstrable knowledge with REST, GRPC, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
  • A data-driven focus to provide quality metrics and monitoring
  • A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 3 years of hands-on experience

What the job involves

  • As a Principal Software Engineer working on the Brand Platform team, you will build tools and features that enable brands and other businesses to grow their presence on the Roblox platform
  • You will lead initiatives to help scale our distributed systems while maintaining a safe and secure economy. You will report into our Engineering Manager
  • Have direct impact on the future direction of the largest social platform for play, delivering groundbreaking solutions allowing our development teams earn a sustainable living and build experiences for a global community
  • Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions in a reliable, secure manner
  • Collaborate with our cross-functional team members including those in product, design, data science, and machine learning
  • Have real ownership on this team
  • Help recruit future talent for the team and mentor junior engineers

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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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 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

Leadership

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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