Principal Backend Software Engineer, Roblox
Account Authentication
$283.8-331.6k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$283.8-331.6k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in software development
- 5+ years of experience working on Account Authentication features and protocols
- Led technical efforts landing and maintaining large-scale, high availability systems
- Worked cross organizationally to land a project
- Familiarity with C#. Go, or Rust
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical fields is ideal
- Previous experience with: GRPC, Protobuf, React, CockroachDb, Kafka, Nomad, Consul, and Vault
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger
- Proactive: You can speak in detail about problems that you identified and solutions that you drove to launch
- Conscientious: You make sure that all the little things get done before you push code to production. You don't consider a project done if it doesn't have tests, dashboards, playbooks, communications to partner teams, and alerts
- Passionate about preserving user trust and safety
What the job involves
- As a Tech Lead on Roblox's Account Authentication team, you will provide technical leadership to 4-6 ICs in working cross organizationally on the design, implementation and landing of HTTP and GRPC services critical to Roblox user sign-up, sign-in, token authentication, and logout. We work at large scale maintaining and extending critical infrastructure supporting 3M+ (and growing) qps
- As an Account Auth team we act as the gateway to the metaverse. When we do our job well, Roblox users will have a seamless experience regardless of whether they are using a PC, Android phone, or iOS tablet. Upon joining Roblox, you will report to the Senior Manager of the Account Authentication team and will be based in our San Mateo HQ in a hybrid working model. #LI-Hybrid
- Chart the future direction of our backend efforts. We are presently considering the future direction of our backend infrastructure. We want to move away from C#. We want to migrate to a new persistence layers. New models of piping data through our systems. As the lead of our team's backend reliability and scalability efforts, we would look to you to provide structure and rigor to those conversations
- Oversee the creation, monitoring and communication of our team's production SLO's
- Build critical infrastructure and features to ensure that user authentication is seamless, secure, and reliable
- Work cross organizationally. We collaborate with teams and roles throughout Roblox and get a big picture view of how Roblox works
- Learn new skills. We are using ML and Cryptography to make account authentication better
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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