Senior Software Engineer - Economy - Developer Monetization

As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Economy - Developer Monetization team, you will oversee the scale and security of all things virtual economy at Roblox, from purchasing and selling virtual items, subscription products, to the future of commerce in the Metaverse. This team maintains the base tooling that powers a virtual marketplace that handles millions of transactions a day. The team provides 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 report to the Engineering Manager on the Economy team.

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.
• Improve 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:

• 5+ years of experience in software development
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping products to production in backend domain
• 4+ years of experience working on large distributed systems
• Knowledgeable with REST, GRPC, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
• Passion about working on large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction.
• Versatile: You have a breadth and depth of expertise, and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are fungible in any situation. You can execute on goals, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and measure 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.
• Team-oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.