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Distributed Systems Engineer
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.
Distributed Systems Engineer, San Mateo, CA
The Social Communications team enables smooth, safe and civil communications across the Roblox Metaverse. The team manages real-time communications through all media including text, voice and video. As a distributed systems engineer, you will build scalable, fault-tolerant performant distributed systems to facilitate millions of interactions every day for a billion users.
You are:
- 5+ years industry experience designing and supporting large-scale systems in production
- Experienced building large-scale distributed fault tolerant services
- Experienced with low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
- A solid programmer with skills with compiled languages such as C#, Go, Java, C++, or others
- Well-versed in networking protocols (HTTP, Websockets)
- 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
You Will:
- Build/lead scalable distributed systems that facilitate millions of interactions across all experiences
- Work with Roblox's developer community to build scalable APIs that allow developers to include text and voice chat in their experiences.
- Lead design and architecture discussions and mentor junior engineers
- Help recruit future talent for the team
- Roblox is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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
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