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 is a gaming platform with millions of daily active users from around the world. But it’s also much more than that. It’s a place where people come 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. We’re building the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Economy Revenue team, you will play a key role in building and optimizing incentive systems that drive user spending and engagement, directly contributing to Roblox's rapid expansion and the financial well-being of our vibrant community. This team owns the critical payments integration across every platform Roblox supports, processing millions of transactions daily. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and scale these essential systems. You'll collaborate with a talented team dedicated to engineering excellence and tackling complex challenges at scale.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and designers to define requirements and roadmap.
- Design and architect scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems, including microservices, message queuing systems, distributed databases, and cloud-based solutions.
- Drive engineering vision for highly scalable and cutting-edge solutions.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to design and build new user-facing features related to payments on Roblox, including new innovative payment flows like gifted purchases, as well as integrating new payment methods.
- Design and implement incentive programs and features to encourage user spending and engagement within the Roblox economy.
- Help recruit future talent for the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing and supporting highly available and large-scale systems in production.
- Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python.
- Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, and distributed databases like Cassandra and MongoDB.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Benefits as described on the company page
