Senior Backend Software Engineer, Roblox
Communities
$243.3-295.3k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Posted today
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$243.3-295.3k
More information about location
3+ 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
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of large-scale production systems
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals — experience architecting and operating large, complex systems that handle high throughput
- Deep proficiency in at least one server-side language (e.g., C#, Java, C++) and comfort navigating large, complex codebases
- Ability to author clear technical specs, reason about trade-offs that hold up at scale, and influence teams towards the correct collective architecture
- Track record of broad system architecture — from ambiguous requirements through production, including cross-functional coordination with product, and alignment with multiple engineering teams
- Strong engineering fundamentals — code quality, test coverage, observability (logging, metrics, alerting), and incident response
- Kind and generous: You treat colleagues with respect, assume good intent, and go out of your way to help others succeed. You believe technical excellence without kindness is not enough
- Product-opinionated: You don't just execute plans, you proactively shape our roadmap, and push for the right product outcomes
- Hands-on: You write code, review code, and stay close to the product. You're not looking for a role where you stop building
- An AI advocate: You actively push the boundaries of AI-assisted development for yourself and your team
- Continuously growing: You take pride in your craft and hold yourself to a higher standard each quarter
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer on the User Communities team, you’ll own the backend systems that power social engagement features (Announcements, Forums, Polls, Roles & Permissions systems) for millions of players and creators on Roblox
- Your day-to-day will focus on building and scaling the infrastructure that makes both in-experience and on-platform communication and player engagement fast, safe, and reliable.
- That means driving architectural decisions, reasoning through trade-offs, influencing stakeholders, championing user-first safety standards, and defining developer-facing APIs so creators can build richer experiences
- You'll work closely with frontend and backend engineers, product, design, and data scientists across teams, and you'll have real influence over our technical and product direction
- Shape the backend engineering culture across the Communities team. Your influence extends beyond your immediate pod to improve how we build, review, and ship software across the entire org
- Act as the technical lead for cross-functional initiatives. Collaborate across multiple pods alongside product, design and both frontend and backend engineers
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects. Drive initiatives from the creation of comprehensive technical plans and architecture through to successful launch, iteration, and measurable impact
- Be hands-on in the codebase. Our senior engineers actively develop the platform and review the code
- Design empowering systems. Build architectures that enable Roblox creators and players to actively engage with each other both in-experience as well as on the platform
- Promote exploration and experimentation among engineers, advocating for new technologies and flows that promote user experience, with a safety-first mindset
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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