Senior Software Engineer - Matchmaking
Job Summary
Job Description
- Experience architecting, designing, and developing software products
- Experience building available distributed systems
- Familiarity with NoSQL/NewSQL systems
- Knowledge of REST and API design patterns
- Knowledge of scalable containerized systems and microservices
- 4+ years of experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering
- Computer-Science or MS graduate
- Equity compensation
- Benefits as described on careers.roblox.com/total-rewards
4 skills required
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 Matchmaking team's mission is to:
- Provide the best player experience by choosing the best game possible
- Handle game orchestration by ensuring performance across Roblox worldwide data centers
As a Senior Software Engineer with the Matchmaking team, you'll have the opportunity to build and own end-to-end mission-critical services within the Roblox ecosystem.
Here are a few quick highlights of how we impact Roblox:
- Matchmaking Decisions - Selecting the best game server possible for every play request is a o(n²) problem. The system supports several millions of concurrent players.
- The game orchestration system handles games spread across data centers distributed all over the world, which are growing to support Roblox' terrific growth.
You Will:
- Work on experimentation, data-driven projects and partner with data teammates to achieve the best player experience possible. You'll also work on the Matchmaking algorithm system to improve the quality of the matchmaking decision.
- Help create the next generation of the Matchmaking system, built to support up to 1B monthly active users.
You Have:
- Experience architecting, designing, and developing a wide-array of software products.
- Experience building available distributed systems, and are familiar with NoSQL/NewSQL systems.
- Knowledge of REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices.
- Knowledge of systems engineering is a plus.
- A Computer-Science graduate or MS graduate.
- 4+ years of 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.
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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