Roblox

Principal Software Engineer - Backend Search

San Mateo, CA
SQL Spark Elasticsearch Machine Learning Go Java Python
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Description

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.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Creator Marketplace Team team you'll have the independence, opportunity, and the end-to-end responsibility for challenging, complex, important services within the Roblox ecosystem.

The Creator Marketplace Team empowers Roblox to accelerate the development of 3D experiences by providing assets and tools to meet any need. Creators can publish plugins, models, audio and other assets to Roblox Studio for developers to use in their experiences. Today we have tens of millions of assets in the marketplace, making search quality of critical importance.


You Are:

  • An accomplished programmer in one or more of these languages: Java, Python or C#/C++
  • Experienced in analyzing Search and document data using some of the following technologies.
    • Airflow
    • SQL
    • Hive
    • Spark
    • ElasticSearch
    • MapReduce
    • Pig
  • Experienced in query expansion/rewrite techniques such as synonyms, auto complete, spell correction, query optimization, query to query similarity.
  • Experienced with search ranking quality evaluation and metric-driven search ranking tuning techniques.
  • Experienced in working in an agile/scrum environment with focus on robust design, architecture, TDD, rapid experimentation, A/B testing and metrics.
  • Exposure to machine learning, and/or working with data scientists to productionize machine learning models.
  • Collaborative: You enjoy working with others.
  • Understanding of Knowledge Graphs for document understanding and ranking is a huge plus.

You Will:

  • Be a Search & Discovery Champion: you have knowledge and experience in many search and discovery technologies, empowering you to understand the challenges of making discovery better by hypothesis, modeling, and experimentation.
  • Help shape and build next-generation search and discovery for the Creator Marketplace.
  • Ensure that our systems can scale to meet the demands of our Imagination Platform to ensure our players have a seamless experience anywhere in the world.
  • Support our search and discovery infrastructure in production, sharing the on-call rotation with your team colleagues.
  • Provide technical leadership on large projects with complex multi-team dependencies
  • Write high-quality, performant code
  • Refactor and improve our existing codebase
  • Improve system reliability, performance, and test coverage
  • Work with numerous teams to help build the world's best user generated gaming platform
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
$283,780$331,640 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

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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