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 an Engineer on the Search & Discovery Platform team (S&D) at Roblox you'll be part of the founding engineers building and powering S&D use cases across Roblox. Simply said, you will influence how Roblox's billion+ users will discover the best content and experiences on Roblox's platform. You will report into the Engineering Manager for our Search & Discovery Platform. You will build robust, large scale distributed systems that help 10+ teams across Roblox to power their search solutions, by offering text, semantic and ML search platform services. You also power ML across Roblox by building the Ground Truth Data labeling platform and ML Feature store.
You Will:
- Build the next generation platform helping 10+ teams provide search and recommendations for immersive experiences, avatar items, user-generated content, finding friends, groups, game creation, and more.
- Ensure that our systems can scale to meet the demands of a billion players, helping them find the right experiences and content on Roblox.
- Work with engineering and data scientists for recommendation and ranking to improve the technology and models that guide recommendations.
- On the ML side, you will build a feature store for 1000+ use cases. You will also build the Ground Truth Labeling platform for data labeling using ML assisted labeling and active learning.
- Explore the bleeding edge of search technologies like semantic search powered by vector databases, LLM for search and labeling efficiency, and bring these to large scale adoption at Roblox.
You Have:
- Experience with at least 5+ years in building scalable and robust distributed backend applications.
- A love for coding and design.
- An excitement about solving problems at scale (1 Billion users), performance optimizations
- Passion for search systems, building PLATFORM components to enable multiple teams.
- Architected with microservices architecture, REST, gRPC.
- Experience with one or more modern programming languages such as Go, C#, C++, Java.
- Experience with streaming solutions (Kafka, Amazon SQS/SNS), SQL and No-SQL concepts and design.
You May Have:
- Experience building or working on a recommendation system or search backend (a huge plus).
- Experience building ML Platforms, Feature stores, Data labeling platforms (plus)
- Experience working with public clouds such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
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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