Roblox is looking to build and optimize incentive systems that drive user spending and engagement, processing millions of transactions daily, and needs to design, build, and scale these essential systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing and supporting highly available and large-scale systems in production.
- Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C, Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python.
- Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, and distributed databases like Cassandra and MongoDB.
Responsibilities
- Design and architect scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems, including microservices, message queuing systems, distributed databases, and cloud-based solutions.
- Drive engineering vision for highly scalable and cutting-edge solutions.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to design and build new user-facing features related to payments on Roblox, including new innovative payment flows like gifted purchases, as well as integrating new payment methods
- Design and implement incentive programs and features to encourage user spending and engagement within the Roblox economy
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and designers to define requirements and roadmap.
- Help recruit future talent for the team.
Other
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated complicated technical solutions. You can make tradeoffs between short and long-term goals and get the buy-ins from the right stakeholders.
- Product Oriented: You have a proven record of understanding and bridging the gap between product and engineering vision. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving complex problems.
- Result Oriented: You identify ways to improve your and the team’s efficiency. You understand the need to move fast while making the right trade-offs.
- 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 lift your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
- Cross-functional by design: You work well with cross-functional peers, communicating effectively and driving the project forward despite uncertainties.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
