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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.

You Are:

  • Experienced: You have 10+ years of industry experience. You have a BS in Computer Science, MS/PhD are a definite plus.

  • Battle ready: You have already built and deployed client side applications that support millions of users and are not afraid of any part of the technical stack

  • Versatile: You’re a jack of all trades and you have mastered several languages (e.g. ObjC, Java, etc) and technologies (e.g. iOS, Android, Windows, etc); you can easily adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution.

  • Knowledgeable: You are able to go deep in any required areas from fluid animations, threading, caching, networking to automation testing and CI/CD pipeline. You can recommend one route versus another and bring a team of engineers to consensus. You also love to pick up new technologies/platforms as the landscape evolves.

  • Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our developers.

  • Team-oriented: You always put the community, company, and team priorities ahead of personal goals, and you are used to leading technical teams in any situation.

You Will:

  • Be responsible for the technology that will help Roblox scale our application development with a growing number of teams and engineers.

  • Lead the technical direction and implementation necessary to scale the Universal App architecture across our tech stack of native code, C++ and Lua.

  • Envision the tooling and build infrastructure that are necessary to support frequent features delivery from many independent engineering teams.

  • Stay on top of the new functionalities from the 3rd party platforms that Roblox supports and strategically introduce and enable them as new capabilities into our product lines.

  • Work with the industry and 3rd party vendors to satisfy necessary compliance requirements.

  • Interface with the industry and communities where applicable for our open source footprints.

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