Principal Software Engineer - Game Engine Systems

The Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox.

Qualifications

• Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments.
• Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide.
• Worked on the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients.

Skills

• Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience
• Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source
• Experience with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio (Desirable)
• An amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw
• A keen eye for each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste
• Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed

Benefits

• 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.
• This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
• All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.