Senior Software Engineer, Core Services

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $222,910 PA - $289,460 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Core Services team at Roblox manages the core infrastructure and API stack, building high throughput microservices that power the Roblox platform. As a Senior Engineer, you will own and drive the development and management of these critical components, contributing to the development of tooling and frameworks for full-stack teams. You will have the opportunity to work on high RPS services, re-architect systems for growth, and collaborate with diverse teams. Key responsibilities include building, maintaining, and scaling systems to support a billion active users, designing backend features for Roblox website and mobile apps, and building core infrastructure accessible to all Roblox teams. You will also enforce high code quality standards and architectural designs.
Must have:
  • Experience in C#, Java, Go or any object-oriented programming language
  • 6+ Years of Experience building web applications
  • Experience designing high traffic REST APIs
  • Experience with Containers and microservices
  • Experience building large scale distributed systems
  • Experience debugging and mitigating production issues
  • Experience leading cross-team greenfield projects
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job Details

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.

The Core Services team manages the core infrastructure and API stack and builds high throughput microservices that powers https://www.roblox.com. These services need to be fast, reliable and highly scalable as they have a huge impact on the day-to-day experience of every Roblox user. In addition, the team owns shared libraries, infrastructure microservices, and the web infrastructure used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams. We ship with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement. From serving basic user information to populating content into in-experience. Core Services is integral to the Roblox experience.

As a Senior Engineer within the team, you will own and drive the development and management of core infrastructure, API stack, and microservices. These components are essential for supporting a range of services and platforms within Roblox, including our studio environment. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of tooling and frameworks for full-stack teams. You will get the chance to take ownership of high RPS (requests per second) services, contribute to the re-architecture of systems to accommodate our company's growth, and collaborate with a diverse set of teams including Infra and the product teams within Roblox, leading initiatives, and making a significant impact across the company.
Here are a few quick highlights of how we power Roblox:
  • Microservices - we manage 50+ microservices, the most of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. These services are crucial to run Roblox. They sit right at the heart of the connection between product and infrastructure.
  • API Scale - we run services that hit 500K - 3M RPS, the highest load of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. Scalability and reliability of these services is important to keep the product alive.
  • Thumbnails - our system generates and delivers 5 - 6 million thumbnails per second. Perfect for viewing all your avatar clothing options!
  • Roblox website - managing the production infra behind running the website while re-architecting it is a real interesting architectural challenge. If you're interested in changing the airplane's engine while it's flying, you'll like this challenge.
You will:
  • Report into the Core Services Organization.
  • Build, maintain, and scale systems to support our goal of 1 billion active users
  • Design backend features for https://www.roblox.com and mobile apps on iOS, Android, and Amazon platforms.
  • Collaboratively build new microservices using Docker, .NET Core, and container orchestration.
  • Build and establish core infrastructure accessible to all Roblox teams.
  • Enforce high code quality standards, architectural designs, and long-term approaches as a gatekeeper
You have:
  • Experience in C#, Java, Go or any other object-oriented programming language
  • 6+ Years of Experience building web applications in frameworks such as ASP.NET, SpringMVC, Express, Rails, or Flask.
  • Experience designing high traffic REST APIs, using Containers and microservices
  • Experience building large scale distributed systems with focus on scalability, reliability, and availability
  • Experience in debugging, mitigating, and root causing problems in the production environment in a timely and systematic manner.
  • Experience leading cross team greenfield projects.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range
$222,910$289,460 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.

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