Principal Engineer - Creator Services

Roblox • San Mateo, CA

27d

About The Position

As a Principal Software Engineer on our Creator Services team, you will have an immediate impact on the building blocks of Roblox itself. You will be the technical leader for multiple teams of engineers. If you enjoy working on modern distributed systems, products for developers, C# and C++ software, and networking challenges alongside highly-experienced and passionate engineers, you will be right at home on our growing Creator Services team. You Will You will own the platform for product teams at Roblox to expose their APIs, authorize access to them, publish docs, and communicate with users. You will develop new products and features that help creators make complex experiences including live game operations at many-million-player scale. You will support core systems at massive scale including how players move between game servers, how game servers communicate with each other, and how experiences interact with on and off platform services. Your work has the potential to directly move company metrics (e.g. through reducing loading times). You will build solutions that will make Roblox work better on every device. You Are

Requirements

• Experienced in industry: You have 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Experienced with Distributed Systems: You are deeply familiar and regularly work with concepts like stream processing, leader election, RPC, retry strategies, etc.
• Experienced with native code: You have worked on deep and challenging problems in complex networked codebases, with 3+ years of experience in C++ to support working on full stack features that involve the Roblox engine & our backend systems.
• Systems programming: familiar with raw & managed memory access, pointers, thread safety, locking primitives, inter-process communication methods, network sockets, HTTP etc.
• Platforms : You can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms. You understand where platform-specific code is relevant.
• Responsible: You build systems with proper telemetry, logging, operations and automated testing in mind.
• Curious: You want to learn and stay up-to-date on technology developments, particularly in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform for product teams at Roblox to expose their APIs, authorize access to them, publish docs, and communicate with users.
• Develop new products and features that help creators make complex experiences including live game operations at many-million-player scale.
• Support core systems at massive scale including how players move between game servers, how game servers communicate with each other, and how experiences interact with on and off platform services.
• Build solutions that will make Roblox work better on every device.

What This Job Offers

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