Software Engineer, User Co-Experience
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Every day tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore create play learn and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox were building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together from anywhere in the world and on any device. Were on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means youll be working to shape the future of human interaction solving unique technical challenges at scale and helping to create safer more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a Backend Engineer on the Co-Experience team you will work on high-visibility initiatives that define the future of age-appropriate communication. Using modern technologies you will build and maintain a social ecosystem that ensures safe civil and meaningful interactions across diverse age groups.
We are kind highly collaborative and draw on a mix of startup and large company backgrounds to iterate faster within Roblox.
Our primary product is a platform-level Party System. As the heartbeat of social interaction on Roblox this system enables users to coordinate form groups and stay connected as they navigate across servers and immersive experiences.
While we have a strong foundation of chat voice gameplay mechanics and creator APIs we need your expertise to strengthen our backend infrastructure build out new features and accelerate our path toward product-market fit. As we scale your work will directly impact our global community and support the companys top-line growth.
You Have:
- An undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science engineering or a related field.
- 2 years of experience in working on microservice architectures with a proven track record in addressing scalability and reliability challenges.
- 1 years of experience building systems behind consumer-facing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users.
- Strong understanding of server-side development and design principles with proficiency in at least one compiled language such as C# C Java Golang or other.
- Strong product intuition - you think in terms of user experience tradeoffs and measurable outcomes as well as system design.
- A track record of leveraging AI-assisted development tools to maximize engineering velocity allowing you to rapidly prototype iterate on complex logic and move from ideation to production-ready code with high efficiency.
You Will:
- Collaborate within a multi-functional team that includes product design UXR frontend and backend engineering.
- Maintain improve and scale the Roblox party system to support millions of concurrent users.
- Participate in design and develop service infrastructure empowering Roblox creators to unlock new ways to co-experience for their users.
- Partner with other engineering teams (infrastructure matchmaking chat voice trust and safety) to integrate multiple systems in a reusable performant and safe manner.
- Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle.
- Maintain high quality standards while iterating on features with live production traffic.
- Mentor interns.
You may redact age date of birth and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer.
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IC
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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!
