Principal Software Engineer - Programming Model
Principal Software Engineer - Programming Model
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Job Description
As a Software Engineer on the Roblox game engine team you will work with us on software ecosystem development of the embedded scripting languages in the Roblox engine. To make tomorrows top games developers on the Roblox platform need more than just a scripting environment that worksthey need advanced programming interfaces efficient set of script libraries comprehensive sets of development tools and an ultrafast multithreaded runtime. Join our team and help drive the development of a new set of programming interfaces and advanced tooling features that will be used by millions of developers daily. You will be part of our Game Engine Programmability team.
You Will:
- Help our team with prototyping and developing creator programming models to allow scripts to scale better across multiple CPU cores and even multiple computer systems.
- To increase confidence in our designs we need to create prototypes to exercise our designs on realistic use cases and assess if they are fit for purpose and whether or not performance metrics for the solutions meet our goals
- Collaborate with engineers on our various engine and partner teams
- Find out how Roblox is so special and how you can harness that to provide thoughtful environments using industryleading techniques across all platforms
You Are:
- Passionate about Game Development and developing software programming environment for other game developers: Youre excited about bringing the concepts learned from other gaming or general software development environments to this new and exciting scripting ecosystem.
- Proficient in C and familiar with parallel/concurrent programming concepts.
- Experienced with developing APIs tools and distributed systems. Lua/Luau programming knowledge is a plus!
- Selfmotivated: Youre experienced in working with complex codebases with minimal oversight
- Responsible: You build systems that work and keep on working reliably.
- Curious: You want to learn. You stay informed about the latest developments in scripting languages and programming environments.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
