Principal Software Engineer Roblox Economy Platform
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Who We Are:
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 whats 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 youll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you wont find anywhere else.
What Youll Do:
Robux is Robloxs Virtual Currency: its how Users buy virtual items and how Creators earn a living. The Economy Platform team is the owner for all systems powering Robux transactions and has the goal of maintaining Robloxs Economy healthy and vibrant.
As a Principal Software Engineer for Virtual Economy Platform you will be responsible for improving and scaling Roblox core monetization systems. You will report to Virtual Economys Senior Engineering Manager.
The scope of Economys team includes the several Purchasing Pricing and Payout systems. Those systems enable developers to monetize their games on Roblox earning hundreds of millions of dollars per year while processing billions of transactions.
The ideal candidate is someone with extensive experience in backend distributed systems capable of working independently advising on multiple projects in parallel and defining technical direction for the team.
You Have:
- 10 years of experience developing and supporting highly available and large-scale backend systems in production.
- 3 years of experience leading large projects with 5 engineers.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a similar technical field.
- Preferred Experience in consumer-facing products
- Preferred Experience working in monetization platforms fintech or gaming industry.
You will:
- Lead projects with the highest economic impact and visibility.
- Work cross-functionally & cross-organizationally with product managers data scientists and designers to define requirements and roadmap.
- Drive engineering vision for highly scalable and cutting-edge solutions.
- Develop highly scalable systems for our creators to optimize their revenue within Roblox.
- Help recruit future talent for the team.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
