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Distributed Systems Engineer, Communications Safety

As a Senior Software Engineer, RTC Safety, you’ll be in charge of building our upcoming platform to empower the immersive Spatial voice chat communication in experiences on Roblox

Our products include backend services working at high scale, data pipelines, ML models, and tools to ensure safe and civil multimodal communication experience (voice chat, 3D audio, and large scale broadcast), to our 150M+ monthly users. Safety is Roblox’s #1 priority and your mission is to defend our community

If you are an experienced developer with a deep understanding of distributed systems, you’ll be right at home within our highly-skilled and rapidly growing RTC team.

You Are:

• Fluent in backend software development
• Proficient in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database technology at scale
• Experienced building highly available and large-scale distributed fault tolerant services
• Experienced with low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
• Well-versed in networking protocols (HTTP, GRPC, WebSockets)
• 5+ years industry experience designing and supporting large-scale systems in production
• Responsible: you build systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are thorough in your designs, rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing.
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
• Curious: you are keen to learn and grow, and stay up-to-date on technology developments.
• Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our end users and game developers
• Team-oriented: You are able to work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. Able to write clear design specs, mentor junior engineers, and guide projects from beginning to end
• Data-driven focused on quality metrics and monitoring
• Experienced with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 5 years of hands-on experience

Nice to Have:

• 6+ years of Industry experience in software development
• Familiar with Python, C#, TypeScript, Lua, or Go
• 2+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark and Airflow
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field

You Will:

• Build systems from ground-up, to detect and address complex degrees of Abuse possible with end user communication systems supporting millions of users on Roblox . This may involve building backend services working at high scale, ML models, or tools to support our operation teams.
• Shape how the next generation of internet users interacts safely in the metaverse
• Define and build platform features to support product teams across the company in ensuring safety in every aspect of real time communication at Roblox.
• Collaborate with product and design to push the boundary of what is possible.
• Use best programming practices, optimizing code to be performant
• Help recruit future talent for the team