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Principal Software Engineer - Creator Services Platform
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 Software Engineer with the Creator Services - Platform Team, you will have the independence, opportunity, and the end-to-end responsibility to help us create an important and complex set of backend and client features to support the creators of games and other experiences within our entire Roblox services ecosystem!
The Creator Services - Platform Team develops our cloud services and infrastructure which allow Roblox experiences to operate at scale and communicate across a broad set of use cases and functionalities. These systems allow our creators to publish and manage compelling content within the Roblox ecosystem in ways that they could only previously imagine. You will help us create and extend important services in our cross-discipline team within our Roblox ecosystem.
You Are:
- A Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations
- An outstanding software engineer with 8+ years experience shipping high complexity code and high impact projects (leveling will be based on experience)
- Experienced in building and supporting backend applications at scale
- Proficient in C#, Java, Go or any other object-oriented programming language
- Consistent with building and delivering projects from conception to production
- Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, and monitored code
- A collaborative team member
- Product-minded with an interest in understanding the end-user
You May Be:
- Proficient at full-stack development including using React.js for web frontends
- Proficient at developing either REST or gRPC APIs
- Proficient at C++ development
You Will:
- Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to design, test and deploy our services within the Roblox ecosystem
- Help design our systems and services to be scalable, resilient and high quality
- Drive technical decisions and lead discussions with other teams across Roblox
- Cultivate a healthy culture within our team
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
$308,330 — $356,930 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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