Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
The engineers at Roblox are working on the hardest problems in tech today -- distributed systems, real-time communication, 3D co-experience, massive data processing, social networking, rendering, physics, and more. As a software engineer reporting to the Performance & Test Automation team. You will work on performance initiatives looking at multiple platform Operating Systems (from Android to PlayStation, on high and low end devices) to improve our software stack on memory allocation and CPU/GPU utilization optimizations. You will ship code to improve our performance for every user at Roblox to benefit.
You are:
Required: Pursued or pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field
Familiar with software engineering from school, internships, personal projects, or previous jobs
Proficient in C++
Useful to have: Hardware/ Firmware projects or Assembler experience
You Will:
Design, code, test, and debug features.
Ship code to production.
Work with Roblox's Engine teams to improve our performance for every user at Roblox
Report to one of our many teams to oversee any products or features you are working on.
Please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$150,120—$150,120 USD
You’ll Love:
Industry-leading compensation package
Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
A rewarding 401k program
Flexible vacation policy
Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
At Roblox HQ:
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
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