10 months ago
Base Salary
$289k - $338k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead engineers on the Engine Networking Team.
- Improve game networking and asset loading to support nearly synchronous multiplayer experiences.
- Work across the game platform on real-time communication of game state and other platform components.
- Solve performance, latency, throughput, and scale challenges in distributed client/server systems.
- Optimize network exchanges and understand system-level CPU, memory, and operating-system behavior.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of industry experience.
- Experience leading engineers.
- Strong systems-level C++ programming skills, including understanding of smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and memory.
- Experience with multiplayer game engines and client/server environments, addressing scale, performance, latency, and throughput.
- Experience with large multithreaded distributed systems connecting millions of users worldwide.
- Experience developing for desktop, mobile phone, and console clients.
- Experience with asset loading, rendering, and networking in a game engine or studio is desirable.
- Understanding of operating-system-level behavior and network-exchange performance.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The stated headquarters location is San Mateo, California.
Tech Stack
Categories
Gaming
About Roblox
Roblox builds a platform for user‑generated 3D experiences, offering Roblox Studio for creators and a social marketplace where players explore and interact across devices. Its business model centers on virtual currency (Robux) and subscriptions, platform fees paid to creators, and an expanding advertising offering. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBLX.