Senior Software Engineer - Game Engine Builds

As a Build Engineer on the Engine Foundation team within our Engine group, you will have an immediate impact on the building blocks of Roblox itself. You will manage the build processes of a very complex application that empowers our global community of 2M+ developers to push the boundaries of interactive gaming. Your work will touch every part of our build and automation systems, from the internal quality of life improvement tooling to the optimization of the compilation process itself. If you enjoy working on the latest C++ and automation software alongside experienced and passionate engineers, you will be right at home on our growing game engine team. You will report to the Engineering Manager of the Engine Core Systems Team.

You Are:

• Passionate: You love improving the efficiency of engineering teams, and you enjoy improving existing tools and authoring new ones
• Service-oriented: You enjoy in helping others makes a day fantastic for you
• Platform-knowledgeable: You can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms
• Responsible: You create systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are complete in your designs, rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and knowledgeable in automated testing
• Curious: You are keen to grow, and stay up-to-date on technology developments
• Programming language multilingual: You have worked with C++ before, but you are familiar with many others (Rust, Python, Lua, C#), and could build expertise quickly
• Experienced: You have used CMake, MSBuild, Ninja, Xcode, or other related tools. You understand how they work and are comfortable working on scripts written for these tools. You understand how the C++ build process works and have ideas on how to reduce build times
• Game Engine Experience: You are familiar with the inner working of game engines, especially from a low-level systems perspective, and how they all come together to deliver exciting experiences for our users.

You Will:

• Develop the build system for the Roblox game engine, which will power the experiences of millions of users on the Roblox platform
• Instrument and reduce build times for the Game Engine, together with other software engineers
• Automate existing workflows on the Game Engine team, using tools like GitHub actions or TeamCity
• Work on every application Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers
• Manage your work and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles
• 5+ years of experience with the following:
• Game consoles: Xbox, Playstation or Nintendo.
• Mobile phones
• Git or similarly distributed source control systems.
• C++ compiler tooling: MSVC, Clang/LLVM, or GCC
• Meta build systems: Cmake, Bazel, Nant, or meson.