Principal Software Engineer - Content Lifecycle

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About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Roblox Studio that will allow developers to grow in our community
• Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction that will enable Studio to keep expanding its capabilities
• Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality
• Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies
• Improve the product quality by fostering automation testing
• Participate in building the world's best professional application for massively multiplayer game development

Requirements

• At least 8+ years experience and you've worked on deep and challenging problems with large scale systems in C++ codebases
• Worked on the internals of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments
• Delivered end-to-end on features that span multiple teams and technology platforms
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Qualifications

• Familiar with how version control systems work under the hood
• Familiar with 3D scene and game development tools and workflows
• Familiar with file storage systems or network protocols

Skills

• C++ and game engine experience
• Enjoying solving complex software problems
• Passion for mentoring other engineers

Benefits

We believe that collaborative teams are the future of building one’s imagination on Roblox and you will be designing and building features which unlock that vision.

Pay

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. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range.

Annual Salary Range $295,250—$345,040 USD

Schedule

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).