Software Engineer, Creator Services Communication
About The Position
As a Software Engineer on Roblox’s Creator Services Communication Pod, you will build communications systems and products that power millions of experiences on the Roblox Platform. The team operates the Cross-server Messaging Service and owns developer APIs for HTTP calls to external systems and player teleports between game servers. It is also launching Compute Functions and developing a Game Server Management product to unify server observability and control. The work focuses on complex, large-scale back-end distributed systems and networking, while also spanning infrastructure, engine development, data pipelines, microservices, telemetry, game servers, web development, UI, and UX. You will work on products for developers and collaborate on important cross-company efforts. The position is based in an office in San Mateo, California, with onsite work Tuesday through Thursday and optional office presence Monday and Friday.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong ownership working in complex technical systems.
- Comfort with systems-level programming languages such as C++, C#, Objective-C, Rust, or similar.
- Curiosity and willingness to work across a wide range of systems and understand the Roblox ecosystem end to end.
- A long-term mindset, considering how work affects the team and users over time.
Responsibilities
- Develop products and features that help creators build complex experiences, including live game operations at many-million-player scale.
- Support core systems for player movement between game servers, communication between game servers, and interactions between experiences and on- and off-platform services.
- Work across the technology stack, including the C++ game engine, Kafka streams, Flink jobs, Elasticsearch, Redis, ClickHouse databases, C# backend services, and React UIs.
- Take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles.
Benefits
- Equity compensation for full-time employees.
- Benefits as described on the company’s benefits page.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
