Principal Core Systems Software Engineer - Game Engine (C++)

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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the

communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Engineer on this team you

will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The

networking and asset loading team plays a key role in a smooth experience for

the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for

real-time communication of every part of Roblox.

YOU WILL:

* Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience

* Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source

* Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a

Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable)

* Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual

work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions,

and blocks of memory, both structured and raw

* Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the

time goes and how to reduce the waste

* Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is

completed

YOU HAVE:

* Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, 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 the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone

clients to console clients

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 [https://careers.roblox.com/total-rewards].

Annual Salary Range

$293,800—$343,340 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,

with optional presence 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 to candidates with

qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ

candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to

certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.