Roblox · 15 hours ago
Principal Engineer - Creator Services
San Mateo, CA, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$294K/yr - $343K/yr
7+ years expRoblox is a platform where millions of users create and engage in immersive 3D experiences. The Principal Engineer on the Creator Services team will lead the development of tools and features that empower creators, ensuring robust API access and seamless game operations at scale.
3D TechnologyGamingMetaverseOnline GamesSoftwareVideo Games
Responsibilities
You will own the platform for product teams at Roblox to expose their APIs, authorize access to them, publish docs, and communicate with users
You will develop new products and features that help creators make complex experiences including live game operations at many-million-player scale
You will support core systems at massive scale including how players move between game servers, how game servers communicate with each other, and how experiences interact with on and off platform services
Your work has the potential to directly move company metrics (e.g. through reducing loading times)
You will build solutions that will make Roblox work better on every device
Qualification
Required
7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
Deeply familiar and regularly work with concepts like stream processing, leader election, RPC, retry strategies, etc
Worked on deep and challenging problems in complex networked codebases, with 3+ years of experience in C++
Familiar with raw & managed memory access, pointers, thread safety, locking primitives, inter-process communication methods, network sockets, HTTP etc
Can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms
Build systems with proper telemetry, logging, operations and automated testing in mind
Want to learn and stay up-to-date on technology developments, particularly in distributed systems
Benefits
Equity compensation
Company
Roblox
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform that offers a shared digital experience that brings people together through play.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$874.45MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzAltos Ventures
2024-10-01Post Ipo Equity
2022-04-12Series Unknown· $17.71M
2021-08-11Series Unknown
Leadership Team
David Baszucki
Founder and CEO
Michael Guthrie
CFO
Recent News
2026-01-11
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