Senior Software Engineer, RTC Client

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, RTC Client, you'll be in charge of building our upcoming platform to bring multimodal communication experience - voice chat, 3D audio, and large-scale broadcast, to our 160M+ monthly users. If you enjoy working on C++ software while building products for the passionate community of Roblox, you'll be right at home within our experienced and growing social team. You will report to our Engineering Managers and Directors within our Social team.

You Are:

• An Expert: C++ programmer with 5+ years of professional experience. You own a BS in Computer Science, Masters and PhD are a definite plus.
• Experienced: well versed with pointers, templates, memory management, networking (TCP, UDP), client-server communication
• Platform know-how: you can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms
• Responsible: you build systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are thoughtful in your designs, rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and careful in automated testing.
• Curious: you want to grow, and stay up-to-date on technology developments. Thought of learning new technology such as WebRTC excites you
• Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our end-users and game developers
• Team: You know how to work with all participants to develop the best solutions. Create clear design specs, mentor junior engineers, and guide projects from beginning to end

Plus If You Have:

• Shipped a high-quality product on a native/mobile application (iOS, Android)
• Familiarity with the challenges of working on constrained platforms like consoles or mobile devices
• Experience with Lua
• Experience building games with Roblox Studio

You Will:

• Build a new real-time platform from the ground up to support millions of players.
• Use best programming practices, optimizing code to be performant
• Be instrumental in launching high-quality real-time communication products/features on mobile devices and high-end platforms

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.Annual Salary Range$233,840—$283,780 USD

You’ll Love: 

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• At Roblox HQ: 
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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