Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Join the Co-Experience team in our quest to unlock a seamless way for people to connect and stay together across diverse Roblox experiences—both in 2D and 3D spaces. Our current project—a platform-level party system—has very high visibility within Roblox and the potential to significantly impact both our community and the company’s top-line goals. We have just started rolling out voice support and developer-focused Party APIs. We are looking for a passionate and experienced backend engineer to strengthen our team. We are highly collaborative and low-ego, and we draw on a mix of startup and large company backgrounds to iterate faster within Roblox.

You Will

• Collaborate within a multi-functional team that includes product, design, UXR, frontend and backend engineering.
• Maintain, improve and scale the newly released Roblox party system to support millions of concurrent users.
• Participate in the design and development of service infrastructure, empowering Roblox creators to unlock new ways to co-experience for their users.
• Partner with other engineering teams (infrastructure, matchmaking, chat, voice, trust and safety) to integrate multiple systems in a reusable, performant and safe manner.
• Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle.
• Maintain high quality standards while iterating on features with live production traffic.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns.

You Have

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science. An MS/PhD is a plus.
• 4+ years of experience in working on core architectures with a proven track record in addressing scalability and reliability challenges.
• 2+ years of experience designing and building systems behind consumer-facing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users.
• Strong understanding of server-side development and design principles, with proficiency in at least one compiled language such as C#, C++, Java, Golang, or other.

You Are

• Versatile: You’re a generalist, open to learning new languages and technologies, and can easily adapt to changing situations.
• Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving difficult problems. You actively research and leverage recent developments in the AI field to enhance productivity for yourself and your team.
• Team-oriented: You collaborate effectively and enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise with others.
• Responsible: You are thorough in your designs, meticulous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing. You build systems that are stable and reliable.