Principal Full Stack Engineer, Roblox
Creator Store
$289.5-338.3k
+ Compensation Package
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$289.5-338.3k
+ Compensation Package
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
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in building complex, cross-team systems that impact millions of users' lives
- 2+ years of experience in a ‘tech lead’ role within a cross-functional team as an independent contributor
- Product focus: You have experience working with cross-functional teams to build consumer-facing products
- You know and shape the goals for any feature you build, and take responsibility for hitting the right notes for our users
- Hence, you ultimately generate value for yourself and Roblox as a Builder
- Get stuff done: Unafraid to jump into unfamiliar codebases and areas to get stuff done and achieve product goals
- You are a generalist who wants to ship a great product, whether it involves working in C#, TypeScript, Luau or C++
- Empathy: Your team and peers look forward to working with you
- Juniors look up to you as an inspiration
- You articulate your technical decisions without ego, aiming to build the best thing and sometimes learn yourself
- Drive: When you commit to a project, you are constantly seeking opportunities to make it successful
- Other people on the project rally around your focus
- You become the domain expert and are perpetually seeking ways to hone your craft
What the job involves
- The Creator Store is the asset and tool marketplace for creators on Roblox
- Store creators can distribute and sell interactive, scripted 3D models, Roblox Studio plugins, and other assets
- Game creators use these to build better and faster
- From our insights into creation on Roblox, we are building out platform-wide systems to identify and predict bad content, helping to improve content moderation and consequence accuracy for creators
- As Principal Engineer for the Creator Store & Reputation team, you will help connect new and thriving game, asset, and tool creators to ultimately lead to better experiences on the platform
- You’ll be deeply involved and pivotal to building a quality, safe UGC (user-generated content) ecosystem
- You will be the technical lead for Store & Reputation engineering, including end-to-end architecture, implementation, and delivery of a platform that spans the web, cloud, and Roblox Studio/Engine
- We are looking for a principal level engineer or higher
- Leveling to principal or above will be based on experience and interview performance
- Architect the future of our systems - payments and earnings for asset and tool sales, platform-wide safety, IP protection systems, etc
- Care deeply about building a quality product that achieves company goals
- Prefer to ship incrementally, talk to creators, and make positive contributions you can be proud of every week, month and quarter
- Build highly automated systems that let our team scale to an ever-growing ecosystem size and variety
- Mentor and grow a team of 6 engineers, leading by example. There is opportunity for this role to pivot to the engineering management career track
- Have the opportunity to contribute to the broader ‘Creator Success’ company mission
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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