Senior Software Engineer Consoles
San Mateo, CA - USA
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 Apps Consoles team owns the console app foundation that makes Roblox feel fast fluid and reliable for millions of players and is dedicated to delivering superior performance reliability and user experience on PlayStation and Xbox. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Consoles team youll be a driving technical force leading complex client work end-to-end raising the quality bar across our codebase and partnering closely with product design and platform teams to ship experiences that are polished and performant at scale.
- Shape & improve the PlayStation and Xbox experience that millions of players see every day
- Translate ambiguous product ideas into well-scoped high-quality engineering plans in close partnership with product design and data science.
- Raise the engineering bar through rigorous code review proactive mentorship of junior engineers and the standards you set in your own code.
- Drive platform-level investments that benefit the broader engineering organization.
- Work with our Xbox and PlayStation counterparts to ensure feature parity and platform-specific excellence.
- 5 years of experience building and shipping client software with strong C proficiency; experience with Lua/React is a plus.
- Client platform expertise: hands-on experience delivering on console desktop or mobile. Direct experience shipping on PlayStation or Xbox is highly valued.
- Strong debugging instincts: youre comfortable profiling tracing and diagnosing hard problems across the full client stack including platform-specific issues unique to console hardware.
- Data fluency: you use metrics logging and experimentation to evaluate feature health drive decisions and measure player impact.
- Ownership and self-direction: you can take an ambiguous problem break it down and drive it to completion without heavy oversight
- Collaborative by nature: you communicate clearly build trust across functions and make the engineers around you better.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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!