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Senior Software Engineer - User Behavior
1 year 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.
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) you will be part of the highest priority organization at Roblox that features diverse work in product and mobile engineering, machine learning, data engineering, and traditional high throughput and low latency microservice to detect issues in real-time. The User Behavior team is focused on building data-driven features for Roblox's main user experience. These features are aimed at monitoring user activity, building a reputation system to reward users who behave well on the platform, and building features to allow users to report bad or questionable content for moderators to analyze. Essentially, we are building the infrastructure to monitor the user's behavior and move it toward a more civil engagement.
We are looking for engineers who are passionate about solving problems that haven't been solved before with a user-facing focus. Our clients serve over 200M Daily Active Users and thousands of internal tools users who support our community. You will have a high impact and will directly affect our hundreds of millions of monthly users. You will report to an experienced Engineering manager within the Trust & Safety team.
You Are:
- Excited to build consumer-facing products at high scale
- Passionate about building products for online communities
- Versatile: Comfortable with several languages and technologies already; You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and measure the problems and the solutions.
- User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
- Interested in keeping the next generation of internet users safe and civil as they interact online
You Will:
- Help build backend services across large distributed systems
- You'll manage writing unit and integration tests
- Determine and resolve performance issues
- Help establish next-generation standards on the backend web and service stack
- Participate in building the world's best user generated gaming platform
- Report to the Engineering Manager of Trust & Safety
You Have:
- 4+ years of experience building large-scale distributed backend services
- 4+ years of experience in software development
- 4+ years of experience building and shipping products to production
- 4+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects
Nice to Have:
- 6+ years of experience in software development
- Familiar with Python, Go, and C#
- 2+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark and Airflow
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field
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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