About this role
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.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Communications, you’ll be in charge of building rich, immersive and engaging user communication experiences to empower safe and seamless ways for people and our creators to express themselves in different modalities better than in real life with rich text, at scale in both 2D and 3D space.
This role will focus on building and scaling the backend systems that power text chat, strengthening the underlying chat infrastructure needed to support reliability, safety, and developer-facing flexibility across existing experiences, while also enabling new innovative products and communication patterns. If you are an experienced developer with a deep understanding of large scale systems and enjoy shaping engineering vision, you’ll be right at home within our highly-skilled and product-driven team
You will:
• Engineer and scale next-generation infrastructure to accommodate our rapidly expanding user base, maintaining systems capable of supporting millions of concurrent users. You will architect high-throughput backend services, leverage machine learning models, and support rapid product experimentation.
• Innovate on the platform to provide creators the tools they need to build deeply tailored & integrated social experiences
• Devise creative solutions to optimize and scale our systems to support communication for a billion people on the platform.
• Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient.
• Enforce high quality standards while we iterate on feature development.
• Collaborate with other engineering and product teams (Game engine, Creator, Trust & Safety to name a few) at the company to push the boundary of what is possible
• Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle.
• Help recruit future talent and mentor engineers for the team
You have:
• Fluent in backend software development
• Proficient in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database technology at scale
• 7+ years industry experience building and supporting highly available and large-scale distributed fault tolerant services in production environments
• Experienced with low-level ope