Senior Software Engineer, Roblox
Engineering Productivity
$192.9-238.5k
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming and entertainment platform
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Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192.9-238.5k
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent with 3+ years work experience
- Owned end-to-end development, launch, and support of a tool or system used by other developers at scale (2000+ of engineers)
- Deep knowledge of source control and/or CI tools and infrastructure. GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory experience are a plus
- Experience working with common cloud and hosting technologies, particularly AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Hashistack (Nomad, Vault, Terraform)
- Fluency in at least one common language (C#, Python, Go, Java)
- Passionate about the developer experience, informed by deep technical knowledge, productivity tooling experience, and a customer-focused mindset
- Experienced working cross-functionally at scale, collaborating with teams across a company to bring solutions together
- An emerging team leader excited to mentor junior developers and level the team up through your evangelism of best practices and teamwork
What the job involves
- The Engineering Efficiency team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be deep in the middle of transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-powered development, code review and CI environment
- If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you’ve ever wanted to have company-wide impact with designs, code, and decisions that fundamentally change how things are done - this is your opportunity!
- Support, scale, and redefine Roblox’s source code search, storage, review, and CI infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth
- Design software to improve the lives of your coworkers with new local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools
- Coordinate and lead major efforts improving the productivity and user experience of our Source and CI tools, spanning teams across Roblox engineering and impacting every engineer at the company
- Bring AI and other cutting edge tech into the day-to-day lives of Roblox engineers, revolutionizing their ability to produce better code faster with less toil and reintroducing them to the joy of software engineering
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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