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Principal Engineer, Communication
1 year ago
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a Principal Engineer, Communication you will help us envision and build a unified, scalable and distributed platform to power communication experiences that are rich, immersive and feel like life. You will help design and make important decisions in allowing capabilities that allow users to connect and communicate in realtime on Roblox, in both 2D and 3D space. You will work with different teams (voice, avatar, game engine, trust and safety, other product teams) to build a cohesive platform that any feature team can build on top of, while keeping our users safe and civil. If you are someone who is passionate about the future of communication and wants to envision creative ways to ensure engaging communication features, then this team is the right place for you. #LI-Onsite
You Are:
- Experienced: You have 7+ years of experience working on backend, distributed systems that are scalable and reliable. Platform level experience is a bonus. BS in Computer Science, Masters are a definite plus.
- Detailed: You like to go deep to understand the nuances while keeping things simple for our customers. You like building abstractions that hide complexity and make things transparent.
- Knowledgeable: You understand all aspects of designing and building delightful systems that are reliable.
- Versatile: You have mastered one or more object-oriented languages (C#, Go, Java, C++, or others) and technologies already; you react to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution.
- Creative: 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: 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.
You Will:
- Architect and Build services that help us create a platform to power user communication on Roblox.
- Design creative solutions to improve and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform.
- Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more efficient.
- Think about improving and enforcing quality standards while we refine feature development.
- Collaborate with other engineering and product teams at the company to push the boundary of what is possible.
- Help recruit future talent for the team.
- You will report to the Communication Platform Engineering Manager.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$267,720 — $331,640 USD
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 five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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