Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Co-Experience
Senior backend engineer on Roblox's Co-Experience team, owning and scaling the platform-level Party System (groups, chat, private gameplay, creator APIs) that keeps social interactions safe and civil for millions of concurrent users. Core tech: microservices in a compiled language (C#, C++, Java, or Go) and consumer-facing APIs, with heavy use of AI-assisted development.
- Compensation
- $196.8K–$243.3K / yr
- Location
- San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience working on microservice architectures with a proven track record addressing scalability and reliability challenges (4+ years with a graduate degree in CS or related field)
- 3+ years of experience building systems behind consumer-facing APIs that handle large numbers of concurrent users
- Strong understanding of server-side development and design principles, with proficiency in at least one compiled language such as C#, C++, Java, or Golang
- Track record of leveraging AI-assisted development tools to maximize engineering velocity
- Ability to author a clear, actionable technical design document that aligns stakeholders and holds up in architectural review
Nice to have
- Generalist open to learning new languages and technologies
- Actively pushes the boundaries of AI-assisted development, for self and team
Full description
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 (Backend) on the Co-Experience team, you will work on high-visibility initiatives that define the future of age-appropriate communication. You will build and maintain the services behind a social ecosystem that keeps interactions safe, civil, and meaningful across diverse age groups.
We are kind, highly collaborative, and draw on a mix of startup and large company backgrounds to iterate faster within Roblox.
Our primary product is a platform-level Party System. As the heartbeat of social interaction on Roblox, this system enables users to coordinate, form groups, and stay connected as they navigate across servers and immersive experiences.
We already have a strong foundation of chat, private gameplay, gameplay mechanics, and creator APIs. We need your expertise to strengthen the backend infrastructure underneath it, build out new features, and accelerate our path toward product-market fit. As we scale, your work will directly impact our global community and support the company's top-line growth.
You Will:
- Collaborate within a cross-functional team that includes product, design, UXR, frontend and backend engineering.
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects. Drive initiatives from the creation of comprehensive technical plans and architecture through to successful launch, iteration, and measurable impact.
- Maintain, improve and scale the Roblox party system to support millions of concurrent users, with a safety-first mindset.
- Partner with other engineering teams (matchmaking, recommendations, voice, economy) to integrate multiple systems in a reusable, performant and safe manner, working through alignment challenges autonomously.
- Uphold high quality standards while iterating on features with live production traffic, and resolve escalations within your team.
- Raise the team's technical bar and accelerate the productivity of junior engineers.