Senior Software Engineer - Search & Discovery
Senior Software Engineer - Search & Discovery
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Why Discovery:
With Robloxs daily active users growing at a record pace we are seeking experienced software engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and designing scalable ground breaking solutions. In this role you will develop our backend systems that power the most used surface areas of the app across Home Search Notifications and more.
You will contribute to the cuttingedge realtime recommendation engines and a powerful backend that drives ML ranking that enable users to discover and interact with experiences across Roblox. These systems drive exploration and engagement across all surfaces helping users find relevant and exciting content. Looking ahead our team aims to innovate further through experimentation building distributed systems to support our scale and driving new bold customer features.
Our mission is to connect a billion users with the best content and connections at the right time tackling diverse challenges in advertising search and discovery at an unprecedented scale. Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Robloxs search and discovery systems.
You Will:
- Design and build the systems architecture that powers Roblox content recommendation search and distribution across surfaces.
- Lead the design and implementation necessary to grow the backend infrastructure across our tech stack of C# Go and several data pipeline technologies.
- Collaborate with other teams (Social Economy Platform) within Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach.
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products
- Communicate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox.
You Have:
- 4 years of experience building and shipping products to production.
- 3 years of demonstrated ability developing systems at scale.
- 3 years of serverside architecture/design and compiled language experience such as C# Java C or others.
- Experience designing and building fullstack systems behind consumerfacing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users.
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Applied Math Physics Engineering Statistics or other technical field is a plus
You Are:
- User oriented: While deeply technical you always start with the needs of the user whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers.
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places.
- Versatile: Youre a generalist and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large ambiguous problems and quantify the problems and the solutions.
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
