Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Communications

Job Summary

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.

About the Role

You will engineer and scale next-generation infrastructure to accommodate our rapidly expanding user base, maintain systems capable of supporting millions of concurrent users, architect high-throughput backend services, leverage machine learning models, and support rapid product experimentation. You will innovate on the platform to provide creators the tools they need to build deeply tailored & integrated social experiences. You will devise creative solutions to optimize and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform. You will introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient. You will enforce high quality standards while iterating on feature development. You will collaborate with other engineering and product teams to push the boundary of what is possible. You will self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle. You will help recruit future talent and mentor engineers for the team.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and scale next-generation infrastructure to accommodate our rapidly expanding user base, maintaining systems capable of supporting millions of concurrent users.
• Architect high-throughput backend services, leverage machine learning models, and support rapid product experimentation.
• Innovate on the platform to provide creators the tools they need to build deeply tailored & integrated social experiences.
• Devise creative solutions to optimize and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform.
• Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient.
• Enforce high quality standards while we iterate on feature development.
• Collaborate with other engineering and product teams (Game engine, Creator, Trust & Safety to name a few) at the company to push the boundary of what is possible.
• Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle.
• Help recruit future talent and mentor engineers for the team.

Requirements

• Fluent in backend software development
• Proficient in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database technology at scale
• 7+ years industry experience building and supporting highly available and large-scale distributed fault tolerant services in production environments
• Experienced with low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
• Well-versed in networking protocols (HTTP, UDP, GRPC, WebSockets)
• Hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners in Product and Data Science to drive meaningful results that align with the team's overarching vision.

Qualifications

• Experience building communication products and features
• Experience with C++
• Experience orchestrating and integrating ML models with product use cases
• 2+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark and Airflow

Benefits

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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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. 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.

Schedule

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