Software Engineer, Roblox
Creator Services Communication
$153.1-196.8k
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3+ days a week in office
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153.1-196.8k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong ownership working in complex technical systems
- Knowledge: You are comfortable working with systems level programming languages (C++, C#, Objective C, Rust, or similar programming language)
- Curiosity: You are eager to work across a wide range of systems and understand the Roblox ecosystem end to end
- Long-term Mindset: You are considerate of how your work impacts the team/users over time, not just getting the green checkmark on a deliverable
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer in our Creator Services Communication Pod, you will build the next generation communications plane to power the millions of experiences on the Roblox Platform
- To give some examples of what we do, we run the mission-critical Cross-server Messaging Service, which is crucial for Roblox game developers to implement leaderboards, cross-server announcements, live operations and more
- We own the developer APIs for HTTP calls to external systems and player teleports within and between game servers
- We are also launching Compute Functions, which provide developers with a new surface to execute game logic for more robust features such as custom matchmaking, limited inventory drops, or any background task processing
- To tie features like these together, we are building a general Game Server Management product to unify developers' observability and control of their servers
- At its core, this team is focused on solving complex back end distributed systems and networking problems at scale
- However, our scope extends to full stack projects spanning all the way from the infrastructure layer, through engine development, data pipelines, microservices, telemetry, game servers, web development, UI, and UX design
- This team collaborates on multiple cross-company efforts and our projects are of extremely high importance to Roblox
- If you enjoy working on modern distributed systems, products for developers, C# and C++ software, and networking challenges alongside highly-experienced and passionate engineers, you will be right at home on our growing Creator Services team
- You will develop new products and features that help creators make complex experiences including live game operations at many-million-player scale
- You will support core systems at massive scale including how players move between game servers, how game servers communicate with each other, and how experiences interact with on and off platform services
- You will work across the technology stack such as the C++ game engine, Kafka streams, Flink jobs, Elasticsearch/Redis/Clickhouse databases, C# backend services, and React UIs
- You will take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles
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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