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.
Roblox is a gaming platform with millions of daily active users from around the world. But it's also much more than that. It's a place where people come to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. We're building the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Economy Revenue team, you will play a key role in building and optimizing incentive systems that drive user spending and engagement, directly contributing to Roblox's rapid expansion and the financial well-being of our vibrant community.
This team owns the critical payments integration across every platform Roblox supports, processing millions of transactions daily. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and scale these essential systems. You'll collaborate with a talented team dedicated to engineering excellence and tackling complex challenges at scale
You Will:- Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and designers to define requirements and roadmap.
- Design and architect scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems, including microservices, message queuing systems, distributed databases, and cloud-based solutions.
- Drive engineering vision for highly scalable and cutting-edge solutions.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to design and build new user-facing features related to payments on Roblox, including new innovative payment flows like gifted purchases, as well as integrating new payment methods
- Design and implement incentive programs and features to encourage user spending and engagement within the Roblox economy
- Help recruit future talent for the team.
You Have:- 5+ years of experience developing and supporting highly available and large-scale systems in production.
- Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python.
- Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, and distributed databases like Cassandra and MongoDB.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience.
You Are:- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated complicated technical solutions. You can make tradeoffs between short and long-term goals and get the buy-ins from the right stakeholders.
- Product Oriented: You have a proven record of understanding and bridging the gap between product and engineering vision. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving complex problems.
- Result Oriented: You identify ways to improve your and the team's efficiency. You understand the need to move fast while making the right trade-offs.
- Team Oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You lift your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
- Cross-functional by design: You work well with cross-functional peers, communicating effectively and driving the project forward despite uncertainties.
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
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Annual Salary Range
$242,100-$293,800 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.
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