Principal Engine Programmer - Systems (C++)

Roblox • San Mateo, CA

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source
• Be 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
• Have a keen to 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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable)

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees