Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Search & Discovery
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity
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
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping products to production
- 5+ years of server-side architecture/design at scale and compiled language experience such as C#, Java, C++, or others
- 5+ years of experience identifying and driving solutions to difficult problems that span multiple teams and require deep technical expertise
- Experience designing and building full-stack systems behind consumer-facing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field is a plus
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You nurture a culture of technical excellence
- Versatile: You're a generalist and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions
- User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger
What the job involves
- With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking experienced software engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and designing scalable, ground breaking solutions
- In this role, you will develop our backend systems that power the most used surface areas of the app, across Home, Search, Notifications, and more
- You will contribute to the cutting-edge real-time recommendation engines and a powerful backend that drives ML ranking that enable users to discover and interact with experiences across Roblox
- These systems drive exploration and engagement across all surfaces, helping users find relevant and exciting content
- Looking ahead, our team aims to innovate further through experimentation, building distributed systems to support our scale, and driving new, bold customer features
- Our mission is to connect a billion users with the best content and connections at the right time, tackling diverse challenges in advertising, search, and discovery at an unprecedented scale
- Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Roblox’s search and discovery systems
- Design and build the systems architecture that powers Roblox content recommendation, search and distribution across surfaces
- Lead the design and implementation necessary to grow the backend infrastructure across our tech stack of C#, Go, and several data pipeline technologies
- Collaborate with other teams (Social, Economy, Platform) within Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products
- Communicate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox
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 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 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
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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