Software Engineer, Roblox
Avatar & Expression
$150.1-189.1k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150.1-189.1k
+ 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
- 2+ years of experience building and scaling reliable distributed systems
- An inherent drive to learn new things, to work on tough challenges, and get things done
- Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code
- A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer on the Avatar Core Services team, you will be a part of the engineering efforts that scale Roblox Avatars and build the systems that deliver customizable avatars to numerous platforms and devices
- The team designs all backend services for Avatars on the Roblox Platform, builds the architecture to increase scale, avatar quality, and functionality and creates new services that make developers more efficient and productive
- Build the backend that delivers customizable avatars to multiple platforms & devices
- Create new services from scratch using microservice architecture that contributes to company revenue and affects millions of users globally
- Work with other avatar teams to build new services crucial for both increasing avatar quality and improving client-side runtime performance
- Write high-quality, performant code, and refactor and improve our existing codebase
- Improve system reliability, performance, and test coverage
- Report to an Engineering Manager on our Avatar Core Services Team
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
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.
Insights
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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