Principal Software Engineer, App Performance
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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.
The Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to improve Roblox client performance across our supported platforms. Youll work primarily in cross-platform C Roblox game engine code partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks ship measurable improvements and prevent regressions over time.
Our team owns the end-to-end performance of Roblox. We tackle the platforms most difficult technical constraintsfrom speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability ensuring a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms: mobile desktop and console.
You will:
- Conduct research create and drive execution of roadmaps aimed to improve efficiency of Roblox on target platforms
- Design novel solutions to optimize performance and computing resources usage of Roblox client app.
- Profile and diagnose real-world performance on iOS or Android to identify bottlenecks validate wins and prevent regressions using platform tooling.
- Build and productionize repeatable benchmarks/experiments CI/CD automation to catch regressions early dashboards/alerts with actionable signals.
- Work with stakeholders across Engineering Product and Design to align on priorities tradeoffs and rollout plans; ensure performance improvements support the user experience.
- Deliver improvements and guardrails that scale across mobile desktop and console with informed tradeoffs for mobile constraints.
You have:
- 10 years of experience: working in C with a track record of writing high-quality performant code in large and complex codebases.
- Comfort with ambiguity: able to dive into unfamiliar codebases unblock yourself and take projects from greenfield/MVP production-grade.
- Mobile performance expertise: hands-on experience improving performance on mobile platforms (iOS and/or Android) including on-device profiling to find and measure opportunities.
Systems thinking: ability to build systems that work and keep on working reliably (measurement monitoring regression prevention).
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
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!
