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Roblox · 5 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Network Transport

positionSan Mateo, CA, United States
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$196K/yr - $242K/yr
date4+ years exp

Roblox is a platform that empowers a global community to create and share immersive digital experiences. The Senior Software Engineer, Network Transport will work on ensuring real-time communication within the game, solving technical challenges related to network performance and user experience across multiple devices.

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Responsibilities

Worked on a powerful user-space network stack, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments
Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide
Worked on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients

Qualification

Network StackC++ programmingLinux networkingGame networkingMultithreaded systemsOpen source passionOS

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Worked on a powerful user-space network stack, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments
Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide
Worked on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients
A leading engineer with 4+ years of industry experience
A deep understanding of Network Stack with a passion for working with open source
Experienced with Game networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio
Amazing at systems-level C++ programming and are fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw
A connoisseur with Linux networking and have a good understanding of common network protocols
Keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste
Understanding of what happens on the operating systems -level when certain code is completed

Benefits

Equity compensation
Benefits as described on this page

Company

Roblox

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Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform that offers a shared digital experience that brings people together through play.
dateFounded in 2004
location
San Mateo, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://corp.roblox.com

H1B Sponsorship

Roblox has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (240)
2024 (111)
2023 (139)
2022 (153)
2021 (91)
2020 (92)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$874.45M
Key Investors
Andreessen HorowitzAltos Ventures
2024-10-01Post Ipo Equity
2022-04-12Series Unknown· $17.71M
2021-08-11Series Unknown

Leadership Team

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David Baszucki
Founder and CEO
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Anupam Singh
VP Engineering, AI Platform, Infrastructure
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Recent News

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