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Senior Software Engineer, Creator Solutions
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 Senior Software Engineer on the Creator Solutions team you will use your experience to become an authority on building and deploying experiences on the Roblox platform. You will work directly with high potential development teams, providing them with the in-depth engineering consulting and support they need to master the platform and transform it with cutting edge content.
You will work directly with multiple teams, supporting development of the latest games and content across full project lifecycles. You will apply your expertise at every level of development, from high level architecture and design discussions to diving directly into teams' code bases to diagnose, unblock and identify improvements.
The Creator Solutions team are the internal experts on building and deploying games and experiences on Roblox. The teams' mission is to provide workflow, integration and technical consulting to high potential development teams onboarding and executing across key content verticals. As insights from this work are leveraged to inform product use cases and drive improvements in documentation and self-serve resources, the broader developer community is supported at scale.
If you're an engineer with strong experience developing games in 3D game engines, promoting best practices and the drive to become an expert on the platform and its opportunities we would love to hear from you.
You will:
- Develop deep subject matter expertise on the Roblox platform, Roblox Studio and best development practices
- Help drive the onboarding strategy for high potential development teams with a combination of direct support and resources
- Provide in-depth engineering consulting and support to development teams including but not limited to project audits, architecture consulting and code assistance
- Identify opportunities to use reference code and systems to support developers at scale, and design, build and document these projects in Roblox Studio
- Consult with internal product teams to identify roadblocks and challenges development teams onboarding to the platform face
- Partner with in-house technical writers to highlight and drive improvements to Roblox's documentation and onboarding resources
- Explore long term strategies to support and onboard developers in automated, interactive or contextual ways
You have:
- 5+ years' engineering experience creating content using a major game engine such as Roblox, Unity or Unreal
- A strong track record driving engineering efforts for complex and ambitious projects
- Extensive experience leveraging Lua/Luau, C# or C++ to build elegant systems that conform with best engineering practices
- Strong communications skills and confidence translating your expertise into focused technical advice for diverse audiences including engineers, designers and product managers
- An understanding of the Roblox ecosystem with a drive to become an expert on the unique challenges and opportunities of development on the platform
- A history of active participation in developer or open source communities and a passion for promoting best practices
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
$175,100 — $233,840 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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