Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Experimentation
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an experienced engineer that's passionate about designing and building scalable systems for both online serving and offline analysis which empower our creators and users alike with the benefits of experimentation
- Backend engineering experience with 10+ years of work experience
- Solid programming skills in compiled languages such as C#, Go, C++, or others and knowledge of SQL
- Designed and built backend platform systems that can handle over 1M QPS
- Experience with big-data processing technologies such as Spark, Apache Druid, Flink etc. and exhibit a data-driven focus for quality metrics and monitoring
- Knowledge with REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and micro-services
- B.Sc. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience
- Experience in building experimentation platforms serving millions of users in preferably multi-sided marketplaces (Bonus)
- Experience building and tuning Spark workflows at TB+ scale (Bonus)
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to build simplified, human-centric experiences for internal customers (Bonus)
What the job involves
- On the experimentation platform team, we are building an industry-leading platform and tools that allow other teams and our developers to run and automatically analyze experiments at scale
- As the Principal Engineer on the team, you will lead the evolution and scaling of the experimentation platform
- With over ~98 million daily users (and growing!) and hundreds of experiments every day, the platform already serves millions in QPS
- Help scale our online experiment serving flow to scale 10x
- Design and simplify the experiment creation and analysis flows for the next generation of internal and external customers leveraging AI when necessary
- Design a scalable serving model to support novel experimentation strategies (like crossovers, multi-armed bandits) and support our Data Science partners
- Partner with our Data Engineering and Data Platform teams to build our experimentation data processing workflows
- Partner with our customers all across Roblox and enable targeting experiments to audiences beyond our users - e.g. creators
- Help build a reliable serving flow and a scalable data to support experimental analysis, gradual feature rollouts and human-centric reporting
- Report into the Foundation AI Organization
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.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains 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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