WHY ROBLOX?

Roblox is ushering in the next generation of entertainment, allowing people to imagine, create, and play together in immersive, user-generated worlds. We’re the one and only fastest-growing entertainment platform that lets anyone teach themselves how to code, publish, and monetize any experience imaginable—across any device—reaching millions of players across the globe.

The impact that you can have at Roblox is powerful. We’re looking for someone who’s eager to take on a meaningful role in the success of Roblox on a massive scale. Someone who takes play seriously, but also isn’t afraid to have some fun either. Someone who’s ready to take Roblox—and their career—to the next level.

We are honored to be recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work® since 2018. We’ve fostered a company culture that empowers people to do the most defining work of their career in an environment that’s made up of the most passionate, team-oriented, visionary, crazy-smart people you’ll ever meet. Join the Roblox team where play rules and the possibilities are endless.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Avatar Core Services team, you will lead engineering efforts to scale Roblox avatars to millions of simultaneous players. The Avatar Core Services team builds the backend that delivers customizable avatars to a wide range of platforms & devices. The team works closely with other avatar teams to build new & innovative services crucial for both increasing avatar quality and improving client-side runtime performance. We’re looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about designing scalable systems that solve unique problems for avatars.

You Are:

Experienced in designing and building backend system capable of handling large number of concurrent users
Have dealt with scalability and reliability issues associated with distributed system architectures
Capable of breaking down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages
An expert in SQL database based application with in-depth knowledge of query optimization and scalability concerns
An experienced backend engineer with 4+ years of work experience
A Computer-Science graduate or MS graduate

Preferred:

Designed and implemented public facing backend APIs that could handle millions of concurrent requests/users
Experience with .NET framework and stack
Experience using and optimizing Elasticsearch
Experience in Go, Java, C++ a plus
Game experience is a plus