Roblox

Senior Backend Engineer, Social Coexperience

San Mateo, CA US
USD 218k - 283k
Microservices Go
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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 Senior/Principal Backend Engineer, Social Coexperience, you will define the service architecture that unlocks a seamless way for people to connect across experiences. You will work with several teams (chat, voice, game engine) to expose this capability to other developers. If you are an experienced developer with an understanding of large-scale systems and enjoy shaping engineering vision, you'll be right at home within our skilled and growing team. #LI-Onsite

You Are:

  • Experienced: You have 5+ years of experience working on core-service oriented architecture with experience solving high concurrency issues. You have a BS in Computer Science, Masters.
  • Intrepid: Scale for multiple millions of concurrent users is exciting to you. You know it will take a lot to make it right, but you are eager to get going.
  • Knowledgeable: You understand all aspects of designing and building available microservices.
  • Versatile: you have mastered one or more object-oriented languages and technologies already; you adjust to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution.
  • Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our developers.
  • Team-oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team.

You Will:

  • Build the next generation systems to support Roblox's massive user growth, while supporting the existing systems that can already handle millions of concurrent users.
  • Come up with great solutions while we're moving from service oriented architecture to containerized microservices model to grow to our ever increasing load.
  • Always think about how we can improve our processes and structure to enforce quality while we iterate quickly on feature development.
  • Collaborate with product and design to push the boundary of what is possible.
  • Report to the Co-Experience Engineering Manager

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
$218,540$283,780 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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