Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
As a Principal/Senior Software Engineer with the Content Platform Team, you will design and build backend services to help game creators reach the broadest audience possible. You will help us scale, data processing and analysis, machine translation, machine learning, and harnessing the wisdom of the metaverse to automatically incorporate feedback from players back into the system to automatically enhance gameplay and interactions.
You Are:
An outstanding software engineer with 5+ years shipping high complexity code (leveling to Senior Software Engineer or Principal Software Engineer will be based on experience)
Experienced architecting, designing and leading implementation of a wide array of software products
Experienced supporting mission-critical applications at scale
Proficient in C#, Go, C++, Java, Python or similar programming languages
Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases at scale
Experienced with all layers of the stack - you have been an important contributor across the entire technology stack of previous projects
You Will:
Solve on a variety of unique technical challenges
Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to design, build, test and deploy services within the Roblox ecosystem
Guide the future technical direction of the team and have impact on engineering
Be a technical bar-raiser for high code quality, architectural designs, and long-term approaches
Mentor and develop fellow engineers on the team
Design systems and services that are scalable and resilient
Collaborate and with passionate, Engineers, Product Managers and other Roblox team members, cross-functionally
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
Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
Annual CalTrain Go Pass