This job might no longer be available.
Senior Backend Engineer - Global Infra
2 years ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
As a backend engineer on China Core Team, you will work closely with teams within the Roblox Engineering Organization including Infrastructure, Platforms, Services and various Products, enabling the best of Roblox metaverse platform to a global scale.
The China Core Team is a unique “special force” team in Roblox, focusing on high-impact projects and hyper-growth markets. The backend project you will be doing enables the Roblox platform to be fully capable of providing secure, reliable, and scalable data storage layer and product service APIs for both external Roblox users and internal Roblox engineers. The backend service is also an integral part of the global user identity and acquisition infrastructure that has a critical impact on the business success in China.
The China Core Team not only empowers Luobu, a joint venture with Tencent in China, but also advocates and supports Roblox’s other major global initiatives through innovative collaboration and engineering. This role reports to the Engineering Manager or Director.
You Will
- Build cross platform features
- Improve service’s security and scalability
- Collaborate between different teams to get things done
- Improve code quality in a performant and testable way
- Be able to identify critical areas that need tests and validation
You Have
- 4 – 10 years of software development experience
- Proficiency in C++, C#, or Java
- Experience in working with highly-scalable systems in a production environment
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (JS, PHP, Python, Lua, etc)
- Solid experience in multithreaded and asynchronous programming
- Solid designing and programming skills
- Collaborative and communicative readiness
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Create Your Profile — Game companies can contact you with their relevant job openings.