Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Moderation Services
$283.8-331.6k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$283.8-331.6k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend services and shipping high-quality products to production
- 4+ years of experience leading an engineering team and driving the execution of multiple impactful projects
- 8+ years of experience building REST or GraphQL-based APIs with compiled languages such as Go, Python, C#, or Java
- Proficiency in working with DynamoDB, Cassandra, CockroachDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server or other database technology at scale
- Experience building data pipelines with Kafka, Hive, Presto, Spark, or other data warehousing technologies
- Experience building caching solutions using Memcached, Redis, or similar technologies
- Experience shipping production web apps using a JavaScript framework such as React, AngularJS, or Vue.js and proficiency with tools such as NPM, grunt, gulp, karma, or similar
- Familiar with common web application security issues
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction
- Versatile: You are proficient in several programming languages and technologies. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions
- Team-oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer on the Moderation Services Team, you will architect, implement, and grow the systems that enable the moderation of all content and interactions on Roblox
- You will guide the team in 10x-ing our scale, increasing our platform capabilities, and reducing the time it takes any creator or team at Roblox to safeguard their feature or experience by several orders of magnitude (months to hours)
- Your work will be fundamental in keeping the experiences of over 300 million monthly active users at Roblox safe, civil, and delightful
- In this role, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Moderation Services team
- Build large distributed services and tools used by other teams to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. These systems will involve high availability, security (authentication and access control), data integrity, and both automated and human workflows
- Build the services and tools responsible for improving accuracy and efficiency of finding inappropriate content
- Define the platform features used by teams across the company which will keep our community safe
- Resolve a variety of performance issues (networking, data, compute)
- Establish next-generation standards on the backend web and service stack
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Founders
David Baszucki
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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