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Senior Backend Engineer, Avatar Core Services
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 Senior Backend Engineer on the Avatar Core Services team, you will lead engineering efforts that scale Roblox Avatars and build the backend that delivers customizable avatars to numerous platforms and devices.
The team designs all backend services for Avatars on the Roblox Platform, builds the architecture to increase scale, avatar quality, and functionality and creates new services that make developers more efficient and productive.
With over 30 million daily active users (And Growing), we are looking for an experienced engineer to join us that's passionate about designing and building scalable distributed systems.
You Are:
- Lead engineering efforts to grow backend system to handle a large number of concurrent users
- Break down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages with experience of successful execution
- A mentor and tech lead that has helped team members to grow their technical depth
- An expert in SQL database scalability and optimization
- An experienced backend engineer with 3+ years of work experience
- A Computer-Science graduate or MS graduate
- Driven and Creative
You Will:
- Build the backend that delivers customizable avatars to multiple platforms & devices
- Create new services from scratch using micro-service architecture that contributes to company revenue and affects millions of users globally
- Work with other avatar teams to build new services crucial for both increasing avatar quality and improving client-side runtime performance
- Support our Avatar in production, sharing the on-call rotation with your team colleagues
- Write high-quality, performant code, and refactor and improve our existing codebase
- Improve system reliability, performance, and test coverage
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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