Principal Software Engineer - Creator Collaboration
About The Position
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, we’re 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. We’re 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 you’ll 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. Roblox Studio is a world-class cloud based IDE that facilitates instant synchronization between game developers using our flagship Team Create product. As a Principal Engineer with the Collaboration team, you will be reporting to the engineering manager, leading the architecture, design, and communication primitives on Roblox Studio to develop software which allows larger and better collaboration between teams of developers and artists in the Roblox community. You will also lead the design and development of Roblox Studio and the cloud services it offers. The ideal candidate has C++ and backend experience on large scale systems, enjoys solving complex software problems and has a passion for mentoring other engineers on the team. We believe that collaboration and large teams are the future of building one’s imagination on Roblox and you will be designing and building features which unlock that vision. Join us in our mission to make collaboration development in the metaverse performant, social and most of all fun!
Requirements
- Experience: you have at least 8+ years experience and you've worked on deep and challenging problems with large scale systems along with experience in C++ codebases. You hold a BS or MS in Computer Science, or have equivalent practical experience.
- Knowledge: Building highly available and scalable systems are your forte
- Hands-on ability: Experience with microsystem architecture, multithreading and have an understanding of networking primitives. Ability to deliver end to end and bring features from vision to life. Commanding grasp of what it takes to build performant user flows
- Responsibility: you build systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing
- Curiosity: you want to learn, and stay up-to-date on technology developments
Nice To Haves
- Familiar how version control systems work under the hood is a plus
- Familiar with file storage systems or network protocols
- Familiar with the internals of database systems, is also a plus
Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Studio UI that will allow developers to grow in our community
- Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction that will enable Studio to keep expanding its capabilities
- Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality
- Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies
- Improve the product quality by fostering automation testing
- Participate in building the world's best professional application for massively multiplayer game development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
