Senior Software Engineer Marketplace Foundation
Senior Software Engineer Marketplace Foundation
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Job Description
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Avatar Marketplace team you will be building an international marketplace for millions of virtual items that users acquire to customize their avatars and identities on the Roblox platform. You will design implement and operate the frameworks and services you and the team build that help control the supply and demand of the Roblox economy.
The team is responsible for building systems that will help content creators become more successful sellers. With over 90 million daily active users (and growing) we are looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about designing and building scalable systems for both sides of the marketplace. The Marketplace Foundation teams focus is to provide reliable and scalable solutions for critical systems supporting both Avatar Marketplace creators and users.
We aim to invent new and evolve existing core concepts to support new and future use cases in a holistic manner such as Bundles Limiteds and Price Optimization. We help the creators to improve their earning while scaling Robloxs economy. The team is also responsible for ensuring 10x scalability headroom on critical Marketplace systems improving the efficiency enhancing fault tolerance and decreasing the number and time to resolution of production customer support tickets related to these systems.
You will:
- Design and architect scalable reliable and faulttolerant distributed systems including microservices message queuing systems distributed databases and cloudbased solutions.
- Implement highquality and dependable code with thorough unit and integration tests.
- Develop backend systems to ensure the seamless and efficient operation of our services.
- Troubleshoot and resolve intricate technical issues within distributed systems.
- Optimize system performance minimize latency and maximize throughput.
- Collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams including product managers research scientists and other engineering teams.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers fostering continuous learning and professional development.
- Actively participate in code reviews architectural discussions and technical design sessions.
- Establish and advocate for best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
You Have:
- 3 years of professional experience in software development with a significant focus on distributed systems.
- A deep understanding of core distributed systems concepts including the CAP theorem consistency models concurrency control fault tolerance and consensus algorithms (Paxos Raft PBFT).
- Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C# Go Rust Java C or Python.
- Strong practical experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes Terraform Helm).
- Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop Spark and Kafka and distributed databases like Cassandra and MongoDB.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana Datadog Prometheus and the ELK stack.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving abilities with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving complex challenges.
- Experience defining technical vision and providing technical leadership.
- A willingness to embrace new technologies and a passion for continuous learning.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
