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Senior Software Engineer - Backend Search
3 years 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 Senior Software Engineer you'll have the independence, opportunity, and the end-to-end responsibility for challenging, complex, important services within the Roblox ecosystem.
The Creator Marketplace Team empowers Roblox to be the best development platform for creating 3D social experiences, allowing our creators to publish compelling content within the Roblox ecosystem. This includes services around developer assets, an analytics platform for our creators and products allowing our creators to communicate with their audiences. You will create and own essential services in this cross-discipline team within the Roblox ecosystem.
Projects Include:
- Recommendation and Discovery
- Personalization
- Context-based search
- Content understanding
- Machine vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Collaborative filtering
You have:
- 5+ years of experience working on distributed systems, backend, or data pipelines.
- Working knowledge of C#, Java, Python ; Programming practice in iterative test-driven development on object-oriented principles.
- Product-minded with an interest in understanding the end-user
Nice-to-have:
- Experience with search ranking quality evaluation and experience with metric-driven search ranking tuning techniques and core ranking algorithms.
- Experience working with data pipelines.
- Experience with productizing ML models.
- Experience with personalization.
- Comfortable with big data frameworks such as map-reduce, spark, pig, hive
You Will:
- Be a Search & Discovery Champion: you will gain experience in many search and discovery technologies, empowering you to understand the challenges of making discovery better by hypothesis, modeling, and experimentation.
- Ensure that our systems can scale to meet the demands of our Imagination Platform to ensure our players have a seamless experience anywhere in the world .
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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