Senior Software Engineer: Content Platform
About The Position
The Creator Content Platform Team provides a secure, scalable, and extensible foundation for ingestion, processing, storing, managing, and serving user content. As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems), you will design and build backend services to help game creators reach the broadest audience possible. You will help us build & scale large distributed systems, data processing and analysis pipelines, an access control system, Open Cloud APIs all of which are central for all content created in Roblox. You Will: Solve on a variety of unique technical challenges Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to design, build, test and deploy services within the Roblox ecosystem Guide the future technical direction of the team and have impact on engineering Be a technical bar-raiser for high code quality, architectural designs, and long-term approaches Mentor and develop fellow engineers on the team Design systems and services that are scalable and resilient Collaborate with passionate, Engineers, Product Managers and other Roblox team members, cross-functionally
Requirements
- Experience: You have 5+ years of experience working on backend, distributed systems that are scalable and reliable. You have experience in architecting, designing and leading implementation of mission critical applications at scale.
- Knowledge: You are proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, Go, Java, C++, Python or similar programming language). You have a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field, Masters is a plus.
- Creativity: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to improve and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product great.
- Team-oriented mindset: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team.
Responsibilities
- Solve on a variety of unique technical challenges
- Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to design, build, test and deploy services within the Roblox ecosystem
- Guide the future technical direction of the team and have impact on engineering
- Be a technical bar-raiser for high code quality, architectural designs, and long-term approaches
- Mentor and develop fellow engineers on the team
- Design systems and services that are scalable and resilient
- Collaborate with passionate, Engineers, Product Managers and other Roblox team members, cross-functionally
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Industry
Administrative and Support Services
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
