Roblox is looking to evolve and run the services used by their creators to manage players and game servers, building systems that support millions of concurrent players and ensuring Roblox works better on every device.
Requirements
- You have worked on deep and challenging problems in complex networked codebases.
- You have 3+ years of experience in C++ to support working on full stack features that involve the Roblox engine & our backend systems.
- You are familiar with raw & managed memory access, pointers, thread safety, locking primitives, inter-process communication methods, network sockets, HTTP etc.
- You are deeply familiar and regularly work with concepts like stream processing, leader election, RPC, retry strategies, etc.
- You can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms.
- You understand where platform-specific code is relevant.
- You build systems with proper telemetry, logging, operations and automated testing in mind.
Responsibilities
- You will develop new products and features that help creators make complex experiences including live game operations at many-million-player scale.
- You will support core systems at massive scale including how players move between game servers, how game servers communicate with each other, and how experiences interact with on and off platform services.
- Your work has the potential to directly move company metrics (e.g. through reducing loading times).
- You will build solutions that will make Roblox work better on every device.
- You will work on every application Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers and data pipelines.
- You will take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles.
- You will continuously evolve and run the services used by our creators to manage their players and game servers.
Other
- 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.
- All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
- 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.
