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Technical Director (Individual Contributor) Immersive Streaming

Work with the most passionate, team-oriented, visionary, and crazy-smart people you'll ever meet in your life. Community is the heart and soul of Roblox. Over 30 million active players engage on our platform every day!

The impact that you can have at Roblox is boundless! Much like our platform, the possibilities here are limitless. We're looking for someone who's eager to take on a meaningful role in the ongoing success of Roblox on a massive scale.

Are you ready to take Roblox – and your career – to the next level?

As a Principal Engineer, Immersive Streaming, you'll work in our core game engine to lead the technical vision and execution of our Immersive streaming platform. If you are super excited about hosting a video broadcast for 2M+ simultaneous viewers or ensuring that our 6M+ concurrent players can be immersed in their concert/music/game experience on any device or network condition, this is the right role for you.

You Are:

• Battle ready: You have already built and deployed a system supporting millions of concurrent streams and are not afraid of any part of the technical stack (encoding, transport, transcoding, etc…). You are eager to apply what you learned and lead the upcoming platform for all Roblox real time communication (audio, data, video). Linking that to 3d physics representation excites you…
• Experienced: You have 10+ years of experience in large scale real time solutions with a proven track record of delivering low latency fault tolerant technical solutions. You have a BS in Computer Science, MS/PhD are a definite plus.
• Knowledgeable: You have a deep understanding of all the components required to build a real time streaming system and are able to go deep on any required area from networking, protocols, codecs up to buffering/rendering. You can recommend one route versus another and bring a team of engineers to consensus. You also love to pick up new technologies/codecs as the landscape evolves.
• Versatile: You're a jack of all trades and you have mastered several languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt 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. Bringing real time streaming to build an immersive 3D world should get you thinking about a ton of problems to solve… and really excited as a result.
• Team-oriented: You have a magnetic personality that invigorates the team around you and you are used to leading technical teams in any situation.

You Will:

• Lead the definition and implementation of our next gen real-time immersive streaming platform.
• Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to work towards the research efforts into the Roblox products.
• Guide any intellectual property effort on the domain as we are breaking new grounds.
• Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction.
• Collaborate with different teams to improve existing and develop new functionality, pipelines, and workflow.
• Be guided by our company vision to put the Roblox community first and represent us through thought leadership.

Perks & Benefits:

• Work with an awesome team of smart and motivated people on cool and unique projects that are used by millions of active users every day
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar and rockstar status with our community
• Free catered lunches and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Robust medical, dental and vision insurance
• Fitness reimbursement program
• 401K program
• Pre-tax commuter program
• Unlimited vacation policy

Roblox's mission is to build a human co-experience platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users.

Every day, more than 32.6 million people around the world have fun with friends as they explore millions of digital experiences. All of these experiences are built by the Roblox community, made up of over eight million creators. We believe in building a safe, civil, and diverse community—one that inspires and fosters creativity and positive relationships between people around the world.

For the last three years, Roblox has been recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work®. We foster a company culture that empowers people to do the most defining work of their career. Much like our platform, the possibilities at Roblox are limitless. We're looking for people that share our vision of bringing people together through shared experiences and are eager to take on a meaningful role in the ongoing success of Roblox on a massive scale.

Roblox – Powering Imagination.

As set forth in this company's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.