Principal Software Engineer, Virtual Economy

Why Virtual Economy?

As a Principal Software Engineer reporting to our Engineering Manager working on the Virtual Economy, you will oversee the scale and security of all things virtual economy at Roblox, from purchasing and selling virtual items to the future of commerce in the metaverse. This team maintains the base tooling that powers a virtual marketplace, handling millions of transactions a day. They provide the infrastructure and statistics to empower developers to monetize their games, with our developers earning hundreds of millions of dollars each year. You will help scale our distributed systems while maintaining a safe and secure economy.

You Will:

• Have direct impact on the future direction of the largest social platform for play, delivering groundbreaking solutions allowing our development teams earn a sustainable living and build experiences for a global community of over 200 million monthly active users
• Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions in a reliable, secure manner.
• Innovate on virtual economy in the metaverse and build the next generation of commerce in the metaverse
• Be a tech lead for the team and mentor junior engineers
• Help recruit future talent for the team

You Have:

• 8+ years experience Designing and developing a wide-array of software products
• 8+ years experience working on large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications
• 5+ years working with REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field
• Passion about working on the virtual economy in the metaverse
• A focus on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code
• A data-driven mindset with a focus to provide quality metrics and monitoring

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Versatile: You're a jack of all trades and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
• User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.

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