Senior Software Engineer - Creator Communication (C++)

Roblox•San Mateo, CA

14d

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Creator Services team, you will have an immediate impact on the building blocks of Roblox itself. You will continuously evolve and run the services used by our creators to manage their players and game servers. You will build systems that support many millions of concurrent players. If you enjoy working on modern C++ and C# software, distributed systems, 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 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 will work on every application Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers and data pipelines. You will take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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.
Your work has the potential to directly move company metrics (e.g. through reducing loading times).
build solutions that will make Roblox work better on every device.
work on every application Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers and data pipelines.
take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles.

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