Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Core Services
$273.1-338.3k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Be an early applicant
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$273.1-338.3k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in C#, Java, Go or any other object-oriented programming language
- 9+ Years of Experience building web applications in frameworks such as ASP.NET, SpringMVC, Express, Rails, or Flask
- Experience designing high traffic REST APIs, using Containers and microservices
- Experience building large scale distributed systems with focus on scalability, reliability, and availability
- Experience in debugging, mitigating, and root causing problems in the production environment in a timely and systematic manner
- Experience leading cross team greenfield projects
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The Core Services team operates the core infrastructure and API stack and constructs highly efficient microservices that powers https://www.roblox.com
- These services need to be fast, reliable and scalable as they have a huge impact on the daily experience of every Roblox user
- Also, the team owns shared libraries, infrastructure microservices, and the web infrastructure used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams
- We ship with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement
- From serving basic user information to populating content into in-experience
- Core Services is integral to the Roblox experience
- As a Principal Engineer within the team, you will own and drive the development and management of core infrastructure, API stack, and microservices
- These components are essential for supporting a range of services and platforms within Roblox, including our studio environment
- Additionally, you will contribute to the development of tooling and frameworks for other product teams
- You will take ownership of high RPS (requests per second) services, re-architect them and scale them to accommodate our company's growth, and collaborate with a diverse set of teams including Infra and the product teams within Roblox, leading initiatives, and making a significant impact across the company
- Report into the Core Services Organization
- Build, maintain, and scale systems to support our goal of 1 billion active users
- Design backend features for https://www.roblox.com and mobile apps on iOS, Android, and Amazon platforms
- Collaboratively build new microservices using Docker, .NET Core, and container orchestration
- Build and establish core infrastructure accessible to all Roblox teams
- Enforce high code quality standards, architectural designs, and long-term approaches as a gatekeeper
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
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 experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
David Baszucki
(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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